| Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides Contributor(s): Appy, Christian G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142004499 ISBN-13: 9780142004494 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: In this monumental oral history of the Vietnam War, Appy probes the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam--allowing readers to see and feel what this war really meant to people on all sides. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Vietnam War - History | Modern - 20th Century - Political Science | Public Policy - Military Policy |
| Dewey: 959.704 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.10 lbs) 608 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want. -Chicago Tribune Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, Patriots is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war. A gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely. -The Washington Post Book World |