Another Vietnam
Subtitle: Pictures of the War from the Other Side
Contributors: Senator Max Cleland (Introduction)
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780792264651
Subjects: American history: Vietnam War; Asian history: Vietnam War; Photographs: collections; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Military - Vietnam War; Documentary Photo Collections; Military History - Vietnam Conflict; History; History - Military / War; Pictorial works; History: World; The Americas; Vietnam; Asia - Southeast Asia; Photoessays & Documentaries; History / General; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Photography; Photojournalism
Description: "Often described as the first "television war," the Vietnam conflict was defined - and shaped - by cameras and the bold, gifted photographers behind them. Our memories of Vietnam are literally graphic - a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire, a war-weary grunt with a thousand-yard stare, a napalmed child fleeing her flaming village, desperate refugees clinging to the skids of the last helicopter out of Saigon.

These and a hundred other images are seared into our consciousness - but a very different viewpoint appears in this vision of three decades of war in Vietnam.".

"Another Vietnam presents the view of the North Vietnamese combat photographers who documented their people's 30-year struggle, first against the French and then against the Americans. Intended above all to inspire, their pictures portray a society committed to victory at all costs, but they are much more than mere propaganda: They show us courage, drama, resolve, and - often - a violent beauty."--BOOK JACKET.