Description: Written by the country's leading expert on the Pentagon's Special Operations Group (SOG), The Secret War Against Hanoi triggered numerous stories, including features in the New York Times and the Washington Post. A startling account of the largest and most complex covert operation executed by the U.S. government during the Cold War, it contains the revelations found in more than 1,500 pages of newly declassifed materials. Starting in 1963, when a frustrated John F. Kennedy turned over covert operations in Vietnam to the Pentagon, Shultz shows how SOG's activities over the next eight years -- including a sophisticated triple-cross deception program, psychological warfare, manipulation of North Vietnamese POWs, and deadly operations on the Ho Chi Minh trail -- would have both spectacular and disastrous results.

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