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Can I read The Vietnam War : An Intimate History on EtoBox?

The Vietnam War : An Intimate History by Burns, Ken;Novick, Lynn;Ward, Geoffrey C is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Vietnam War : An Intimate History about?

**From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of __The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts,__ and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.**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. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to divide us today. Now, continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed collaborations, the authors draw on dozens and dozens 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. The book plunges us into the chaos and intensity of combat, even as it explains the rationale that got us into Vietnam and kept us there for so many years. Rather than taking sides, the book seeks to understand why the war happened the

Who reads The Vietnam War : An Intimate History?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Burns, Ken;Novick, Lynn;Ward, Geoffrey C
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780375712203
Category
history
Subjects
History, Military History, Political Science
Rating
4.65 / 5 (58 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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