To What End?

by Ward Just

Book Overview

"As a young man, Ward Just spent eighteen months in Vietnam as a correspondent for the Washington Post. The experience would earn him both a citation from the Overseas Press Club and a Combat Infantrym"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891620770
• ISBN13: 9781891620775
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

More thoughtful than most Vietnam books

This is really one of a quartet of books by Just about Vietnam. The others are Military Men (shamefully out of print), Stringer (ditto) and his most recent Dangerous Friend. Vietnam also appears in flashes in his other books. It is too bad he does not have a wider following; he is an excellent writer on American politics and Americans abroad.I disagree completely with his politics and his perceptions of the Vietnam war, but still enjoy reading his work. His prose style is easy and flawless and he has a lot to say. These are all valuable works about a subject that has had more misinformation published about it that any other three topics combined. This book shows the marks of haste (it was written in a few weeks as noted) but is still well worth it. Buy it fast before it goes out of print again as it has been for several years.