The Vietnam War : An Intimate History

Resumen del libro

More than 40 years after it ended, the Vietnam War is still the original and definitive modern conflict. The first to be fought in the mass media age it continues to fascinate and inform us. In the tradition of their critically acclaimed collaborations, Ken Burns and Geoffrey C Ward have created the definitive work on Vietnam. Drawing on hundreds of interviews in America and Vietnam it is the first book to truly bring us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war: ordinary US and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level political officials in America and Vietnam, anti-war protestors, POWs, and many more. The book plunges us into the chaos and intensity of combat, even as it explains the rationale that took America into Vietnam and kept them there for so many years. Rather than taking sides, the book seeks to understand why the war happened the way it did, and to clarify its complicated legacy. Beautifully written it is set to launch new debates around Vietnam and become the essential story of the conflict.