The Vietnam War
Subtitle: an intimate history
By: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Contributors: Burns, Ken, 1953- author
Edition: Abridged.
Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group; Random House Audio
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Number of pages: 10
ISBN-13: 9780307970817
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Description: 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 listeners the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war: US and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level officials in America and Vietnam, antiwar protestors, POWs, and many more. The book plunges listeners 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 way it did, and to clarify its complicated legacy.
Notes: Compact discs.

Based on the film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

Read by Ken Burns.
Table of contents: title: Deja vu, 1858-1961; title: Riding the tiger, 1961-1963; title: Hell come to earth, January 1964-December 1965; title: Resolve, January 1966-June 1967; title: This is what we do, July-December, 1967; title: Things fall apart, January-July 1968; title: The veneer of civilization, June 1968-March 1969; title: The history of the world, April 1969; title: A disrespectful loyalty, May 1970-March 1973; title: The weight of memory, March 1973-onward.