The Vietnam War : an intimate history
(2017)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
959.7043/WARD,G

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 959.7043/WARD,G Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xiii, 612 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780307700254, 9780307700254, 0307700259, 9780375712203, 0375712208
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Jacket lists authors as: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. This volume draws on hundreds of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war: U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level officials in America and Vietnam, antiwar protestors, POWs, and many more, seeking to understand why the war happened the way it did, and to clarify its complicated legacy

Déjà vu, 1858-1961 -- Riding the tiger, 1961-1963 -- The River Styx, January 1964-December 1965 -- Resolve, January 1966-June 1967 -- What we do, July-December, 1967 -- Things fall apart, January-June 1968 -- The veneer of civilization, June 1968-March 1969 -- The history of the world, May 1969-December 1970 -- A disrespectful loyalty, January 1971-March 1973 -- The weight of memory, March 1973-April 1975 -- Epilogue

"A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War"--

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