John Willheim: War of Whispers: Inside the CIA's Secret War - Image 1

£50.00

HARTMANN H John Willheim: War of Whispers: Inside the CIA's Secret War

Name: John Willheim: War of Whispers: Inside the CIA's Secret War
Brand: HARTMANN H
Price: 50.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Photographers

Price History & Forecast

Last 17 days • 17 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 17 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £50 (17 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £50 - £50

Price levels: 1 different prices over 17 days

Description

This book tells the extraordinary story of what later became known as the "CIA's Secret War" in the Asian country of Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. It was the largest clandestine CIA operation to this day. A guerrilla army of Hmong people fought against the North Vietnamese communist-supported Pathet Lao. While the war in next-door Vietnam was widely covered by the media, the Secret War was decidedly not. Reporters who came to investigate rumors about a war were turned away at gunpoint-with one exception. A newly minted CIA officer, John Willheim, already an accomplished photographer, was chosen to enter and document the Secret War, without any restrictions. His photographs and films were highly classified at the time. Only top American intelligence officials, a few senior U.S. congressmen, and President Lyndon Johnson had access to Willheim's material. In the decades to follow, they remained almost entirely hidden. Far from glorifying war, the striking images and informative text in this book can be seen today, fifty years later, as historic testimony of an almost lost era. This is the only photo book ever published on the Secret War. Everyday images of the people, villages, and landscapes behind the battlelines stand in brutal contrast to the reality of war. Willheim's sympathies were clearly allied with the Hmong people who were fighting this proxy war for the United States against communists in the North and ultimately lost it. At war's end, those Hmong who did not flee Laos were persecuted and continue to be by the current communist government as "America's forgotten warriors." Tens of thousands of Hmong fled to neighboring Thailand and later emigrated to the United States, France, and Germany. Willheim turned over his historic photographs, films, and thoughts to the award-winning Dutch photo book designer -SYB-, who combined them into a riveting, almost cinematic documentary photobook.

Product Specifications

Brand: HARTMANN H
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 3960700652
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Photography & Video > Photographers
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 July 2021
Listed Since: 30 January 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

HARTMANN H John Willheim: War of Whispers: Inside the CIA's Secret War

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos

The Making of Hmong America: Forty Years after the Secret War

A History of the Hmong: from Ancient Times to the Modern Diaspora

The "Family Jewels": Declassified Documents Released by the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, June 2007

Uphill Battle: Reflections on Viet Nam Counterinsurgency (Modern Southeast Asia)

Stealth Conflicts: How the World's Worst Violence Is Ignored

激流者: 陆海空抗战老兵口述历史合集 (壹嘉个人史系列)

The Propaganda Warriors: America's Crusade Against Nazi Germany (Modern War Studies)

Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War (Modern War Studies)

Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency

Routledge - The Hmong Refugees Experience in the United States

Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos (New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies)

In Liberating Strife: A Memoir of the Vietnam Years: Volume 1, The Track of a Storm

Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam

Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN

Guerrilla Warfare: A Historical, Biographical, and Bibliographical Sourcebook

X Rubicon: Crossing Life, Sex, Love, & Killing in CIA Proxy Wars -- An indictment of US Citizens

Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia: From the Taiping Rebellion to the Vietnam War (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Daily Lives of Civilians during Wartime)

The Art of Insurgency: American Military Policy and the Failure of Strategy in Southeast Asia

Routledge War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts

Binding Their Wounds: America's Assault on Its Veterans

People’s War: Variants and Responses

Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947

The Secret State: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century