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Vietnam: A History Paperback - 1997

by Stanley Karnow

This definitive history of the Vietnam War, now revised and updated, is also the basis for a documentary that will air on PBS in May. Panoramic, profound, and compassionate, "Vietnam: A History" was the first book to focus on the people involved on both sides as well as relating the political and military events that unfolded in Vietnam and the decisions made in Washington, Hanoi, and elsewhere. photos, maps.


Summary

"The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced account
we have."—Boston Globe. "Superb, balanced in interpretation...
immensely readable and full of new and interesting detail."—George Herring, Univ. of Kentucky.

From the publisher

"A landmark work...The most complete account to date of the Vietnam tragedy." -The Washington Post Book World This monumental narrative clarifies, analyzes, and demystifies the tragic ordeal of the Vietnam war. Free of ideological bias, profound in its undertsanding, and compassionate in its human portrayls, it is filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with participants-French, American, Vietnamese, Chinese: diplomats, military commanders, high government officials, journalists, nurses, workers, and soldiers. Originally published a companion to the Emmy-winning PBS series, Karnow's defining book is a precursor to Ken Burns's ten-part forthcoming documentary series, The Vietnam War. Vietnam: A History puts events and decisions into such sharp focus that we come to understand - and make peace with - a convulsive epoch of our recent history. "This is history writing at its best." -Chicago Sun-Times "Even those of us who think we know something about it will read with fascination." -The New York Times

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  • Title Vietnam: A History
  • Author Stanley Karnow
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: secon
  • Pages 784
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1997-06-01
  • Features Maps
  • ISBN 9780140265477 / 0140265473
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.83 x 6.5 x 1.25 in (22.43 x 16.51 x 3.18 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975, United States - History - 1945-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97197160
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.7

About the author

Stanley Karnow (1925-2013) is the author of, among other books, the bestselling Vietnam: A History and the Pulitzer Prize-winning In Our Image: America and the Philippines.
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