The Vietnam War
Subtitle: an intimate history
By: Geoffrey C. Ward ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick ; with an introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ; picture research by Salimah El-Amin with Lucas B. Frank ; design by Maggie Hinders
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780307700254
Description: "A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War"--

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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chapter one : Déjà vu, 1858-1961; title: Paths to power / Edward Miller; title: Chapter two : Riding the tiger, 1961-1963; title: Kennedy and what might have been / Fredrik Logevall; title: Chapter three : The River Styx, January 1964-December 1965; title: Chapter four : Resolve, January 1966-June 1967; title: Chapter five : What we do, July-December 1967; title: Chapter six : Things fall apart, January-June 1968; title: Chapter seven : The veneer of civilization, June 1968-April 1969; title: Chapter eight : The history of the world, May 1969-December 1970; title: Seeing Americans again / Bao Ninh; title: Chapter nine : A disrespectful loyalty, January 1971-March 1973; title: Vietnam and the movement / Todd Gitlin; title: Chapter ten : The weight of memory, March 1973-April 1975; title: Dust of life, dust of war / Viet Thanh Nguyen; title: Epilogue