David Montgomery Cambridge, 1987 494 pp. $27.95
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agreement" quickly evolved: North Vietnam did not overrun remote northern Laos; the Americans did not block the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the south. The trail was vital to the Comm~~&s' hidden, un- ending "slow invasion" of South Vietnam; used for replacements and re-supply, it would enable them to wage war there forever, on their own terms. But Washington always feared a wider confict. In 1964, before Lyndon Johnson...