Winners and Losers

First published as a Norton paperback 1992, reissued 2014

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Emerson, Gloria.
Winners and losers : battles, retreats, gains, losses, and ruins
from the Vietnam War / Gloria Emerson.
pages cm
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1976.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–393–34933–7 (pbk.)
1. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—United States. 2. Vietnam War,
1961–1975—Influence. 3. United States—History—1945– I. Title.
DS558.2.E46 2014
959.704'3—dc23

2014011583

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