John G. Roberts Knihy

"By April of 1970, President Nixon's program of Vietnamization was well underway and more than 60,000 US troops had been withdrawn. An intensive training program to turn the ARVN into a self-sufficient fighting force was underway. Operation Texas Star was launched to buy time for the ARVN to complete their training. The mission was given to the 101st Airborne Division, the only American unit still on the offensive in all of South Vietnam. From April through August, units of the 101st aggressively went after the NVA in the jungle. When the operation ended in September, 1970, the NVA 324B Divivion had been driven back into Laos with heavy losses and the ARVN had gained precious time to complete their training and move into their new role of aggressive action against the North Vietnamese invaders." -- from back cover.

Founded over three hundred years ago, Mitsui is the oldest and one of the largest financial empires in Japanese history. As the present book reveals, this enduring giant owes much to the remarkable men who shaped it. Throughout their long history the Mitsui family and executives of its enterprises have been innovators. This book perceptively traces the political and economic institutions that gave birth to Japan's merchants, nurtured her indutries and fostered her zaibatsu (the gigantic financial combines whose influence and power extended to every level of Japanese society. The entire history of one of the greatest zaibatu, its simple beginnings, its ever stronger ties with the government, its steady growth following the opening of Japan to the West, its increasing independence from family control and finally its phenomenal recovery following World War II is all captured in this book by John G. Roberts.