Legendary reporting for The New Yorker on the war in Vietnam-the war that, for many Americans, will never go away Jonathan Schell's extraordinary on-the-scene writing about Vietnam has stood the test of time in our continuing attempt to understand how and why the United States went to war-and how and why it lost. The Real War consists of two classic accounts of American military operations in Vietnam-"The Village of Ben Suc" and "The Military Half"-and Schell's subsequent look back at the war. It is without equal in re-creating the sights, the sounds, and the feel of Vietnam and is written "with a skill that many a veteran war reporter will envy" (The New York Times). "If, years from now, Americans are willing to read any books about the war, let them be 'The Village of Ben Suc' and 'The Military Half' by Jonathan Schell. They tell everything." -National Book Award-winning journalist Gloria Emerson, 1976