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 Author Name: Christian G. Appy
Title: PATRIOTS: THE VIETNAM WAR REMEMBERED FROM ALL SIDES
Binding: Hardcover
Type: BOOK
Publisher: PENGUIN/PUTNAM (PENGUIN ACCT)
ISBN Number: 0142004499 / 9780142004494
Seller ID: 1136443
If you buy only one book on Vietnam, this is the one you want. Vivid testimonies of 135 men & women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from the 1940s to Saigon in 1975. Often raw & emotional, they allow us to see & feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides - Americans & Vietnamese, generals & grunts, policymakers & protesters, & more. 6x9 inches, 608 pgs.
'Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States & Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men & women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached & reflective, often raw & emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides--Americans & Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, Patriots is not a chronicle of facts & figures, but a vivid human history of the war.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"Of all the works on Vietnam - fiction & nonfiction - this is the big one."
--Studs Terkel
"Intense & absorbing...If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want."
--Chicago Tribune
"A gem of a book, as informative & compulsively readable as it is timely."
--The Washington Post Book World
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Christian G. Appy has taught at both Harvard and MIT, where he was an associate professor of history. He is the author of Working Class War and lives in Sharon, Massachusetts.
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