Report on the War in Vietnam (as of 30 June 1968). Section I: Report on Air and Naval Campaigns against North Vietnam and Pacific Command-Wide Support of the War June 1964-July 1968. By Admiral U. S. G. Sharp, Commander in Chief Pacific. Section II: Report on Operations in South Vietnam January 1964-June 1968 By General W. C. Westmoreland, Commander U. S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam

[Washington]: Government Printing Office, 1968. First edition. Maps (some folding), charts and diagrams, photographs, Index laid in at the back. 1 vols. 4to. Original blue cloth gilt. Some light soiling of cloth, warping of volume and light marginal browning of text, else a very good copy of this work. First edition. Maps (some folding), charts and diagrams, photographs, Index laid in at the back. 1 vols. 4to. INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM WESTMORELAND TO HEDLEY DONOVAN, former editor-in-chief of Time Inc. "To Hedley Donovan-With reminiscence of our pleasant association. W. C. Westmoreland. March 1969." In his position as Editor in Chief of Time Inc. Donovan had made four trips to Vietnam to see firsthand the people and places being covered by his correspondents and to get a feel for the situation. He met with Westmoreland in Vietnam in late 1965-early 1966 and probably on his subsequent trips.

Westmoreland was the Time Magazine Man of the Year for 1965. Partly reading, "As commander of all U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, General William Childs Westmoreland, 51, directed the historic buildup, drew up the battle plans and infused the 190,000 men under him with his own idealistic view of U.S. aims and responsibilities. He was the sinewy personification of the American fighting man in 1965 who, through the monsoon mud of nameless hamlets, amidst the swirling sand of seagirt enclaves, atop the jungled mountains of the Annamese Cordillera, served as the instrument of U.S. policy, quietly enduring the terror and discomfort of a conflict that was not yet a war, on a battlefield that was all no man's land.