WINNERS & LOSERS: BATTLES, RETREATS, GAINS,
LOSSES AND RUINS FROM A LONG WAR
by GLORIA EMERSON 406 pages. Random House. $10.95.
Gloria Emerson grabs hold like the Ancient Mariner. With an obsessed eye, she recalls the war that Americans lost, now receding in the collective memory old glossaries of "hooches," "lurps." "fraggings" and "Numbah Ten." or, at home, the Armies of the Night, sheep's blood spilled on draft records, Veterans Against the War hurling their medals at the Capitol.
Emerson, 45, first visited Viet Nam in 1956, in the days of Graham Greene's Quiet American. She returned to cover the war for the New...
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