Description: How America's top naval leaders handled the major challenges of the Vietnam War and its troubled aftermath.
Brief description: Edward J. Marolda served as the Acting Director of Naval History and Senior Historian of the Navy. In 2017 the Naval Historical Foundation honored him with its Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award. He has authored, coauthored, or edited nine works on the U.S. Navy's experience in Vietnam. He currently lives in Montclair, Virginia.
Review Quotes: "Historian Ed Marolda's new work is an important addition to the scholarship on Vietnam and provides a fascinating glimpse into the leadership of five key admirals during the period and the challenges they faced. His balanced and fair praise and criticism provides a new perspective, from the sea, of America's great tragedy in Vietnam." --John T. Kuehn, author of Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy