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THE VIETNAM WAR - GEOFFREY C WARD KEN BURNS GEB...

From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War  Baseball  The War  The
Roosevelts  and others: a vivid  uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America
apart--the companion volume to the major  multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.
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. When the war divided the country  it created deep political fault
lines that continue to divide us today. 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 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. The book plunges us 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. Beautifully written and richly illustrated  this is a tour
de force that is certain to launch a new national conversation.

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