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The Vietnam War : an intimate history, 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
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- Summary
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- What we remember, what we've forgotten, and what we never knew about America's least understood war, revealed in a riveting, richly illustrated volume based on the major ten-part PBS documentary series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Historian Geoffrey C. Ward and filmmaker Ken Burns, the authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, The War, and Baseball, present an intimate history of the Vietnam War. All the major milestones are here--from the Gulf of Tonkin and the Tet Offensive to Hamburger Hill and the fall of Saigon--and we are able to listen in as three American presidents and their advisors search for a way to win or to get out. But most of the voices that echo from these pages belong to less exalted men and women--nearly 100 of them, those who fought in the war as well as those who fought against it, victims and victors, and Vietnamese from both North and South willing for the first time to share their memories of the war as it really was. More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its ghosts remain. We still ask the questions today we asked then: Why were we there? What should we have done differently, or should we have done anything at all? Who was right and who was wrong? Answers remain elusive. But over the intervening decades, archives have opened, ideology has softened, men and women whose memories were once too painful to revisit have become eager to talk. The result is a compelling, completely fresh account of the long and brutal conflict that reunited Vietnam while dividing the United States as nothing else had since the Civil War. This unique tour de force filled with rare photographs, illuminating guest essays, and unforgettable firsthand accounts will reshape your understanding of the Vietnam War, and of war itself.--Jacket flap
- 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
- "A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 612 pages
- Note
- Jacket lists authors as: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Chapter one : Déjà vu, 1858-1961
- Paths to power / Edward Miller
- Chapter two : Riding the tiger, 1961-1963
- Kennedy and what might have been / Fredrik Logevall
- Chapter three : The River Styx, January 1964-December 1965
- Chapter four : Resolve, January 1966-June 1967
- Chapter five : What we do, July-December 1967
- Chapter six : Things fall apart, January-June 1968
- Chapter seven : The veneer of civilization, June 1968-April 1969
- Chapter eight : The history of the world, May 1969-December 1970
- Seeing Americans again / Bao Ninh
- Chapter nine : A disrespectful loyalty, January 1971-March 1973
- Vietnam and the movement / Todd Gitlin
- Chapter ten : The weight of memory, March 1973-April 1975
- Dust of life, dust of war / Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780307700254
- Label
- The Vietnam War : an intimate history
- Title
- The Vietnam War
- Title remainder
- an intimate history
- Statement of responsibility
- 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
- Subject
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- trueMovie tie-ins
- World politics
- trueVietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Vietnam-oorlog
- trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- Vietnam War
- World politics
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- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueUnited States -- History -- 1969-
- 1945-1989.
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- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- What we remember, what we've forgotten, and what we never knew about America's least understood war, revealed in a riveting, richly illustrated volume based on the major ten-part PBS documentary series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Historian Geoffrey C. Ward and filmmaker Ken Burns, the authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, The War, and Baseball, present an intimate history of the Vietnam War. All the major milestones are here--from the Gulf of Tonkin and the Tet Offensive to Hamburger Hill and the fall of Saigon--and we are able to listen in as three American presidents and their advisors search for a way to win or to get out. But most of the voices that echo from these pages belong to less exalted men and women--nearly 100 of them, those who fought in the war as well as those who fought against it, victims and victors, and Vietnamese from both North and South willing for the first time to share their memories of the war as it really was. More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its ghosts remain. We still ask the questions today we asked then: Why were we there? What should we have done differently, or should we have done anything at all? Who was right and who was wrong? Answers remain elusive. But over the intervening decades, archives have opened, ideology has softened, men and women whose memories were once too painful to revisit have become eager to talk. The result is a compelling, completely fresh account of the long and brutal conflict that reunited Vietnam while dividing the United States as nothing else had since the Civil War. This unique tour de force filled with rare photographs, illuminating guest essays, and unforgettable firsthand accounts will reshape your understanding of the Vietnam War, and of war itself.--Jacket flap
- 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
- "A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War"--
- Summary
- 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
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- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- Vietnam War (Television program)
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- Ward, Geoffrey C.,
- Dewey number
- 959.704/3
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS557.7
- LC item number
- .W368 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- 1953-
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- Burns, Ken
- Novick, Lynn,
- El-Amin, Salimah
- Frank, Lucas B
- Hinders, Maggie
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- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
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- Military
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- World politics
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- Target audience
- adult
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- The Vietnam War : an intimate history, 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
- Note
- Jacket lists authors as: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
- Introduction -- Chapter one : Déjà vu, 1858-1961 -- Paths to power / Edward Miller -- Chapter two : Riding the tiger, 1961-1963 -- Kennedy and what might have been / Fredrik Logevall -- Chapter three : The River Styx, January 1964-December 1965 -- Chapter four : Resolve, January 1966-June 1967 -- Chapter five : What we do, July-December 1967 -- Chapter six : Things fall apart, January-June 1968 -- Chapter seven : The veneer of civilization, June 1968-April 1969 -- Chapter eight : The history of the world, May 1969-December 1970 -- Seeing Americans again / Bao Ninh -- Chapter nine : A disrespectful loyalty, January 1971-March 1973 -- Vietnam and the movement / Todd Gitlin -- Chapter ten : The weight of memory, March 1973-April 1975 -- Dust of life, dust of war / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 21099341
- Dimensions
- 29 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 612 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307700254
- Lccn
- 2017015686
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- unmediated
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- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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- (OCoLC)981761717
- Label
- The Vietnam War : an intimate history, 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
- Note
- Jacket lists authors as: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Chapter one : Déjà vu, 1858-1961 -- Paths to power / Edward Miller -- Chapter two : Riding the tiger, 1961-1963 -- Kennedy and what might have been / Fredrik Logevall -- Chapter three : The River Styx, January 1964-December 1965 -- Chapter four : Resolve, January 1966-June 1967 -- Chapter five : What we do, July-December 1967 -- Chapter six : Things fall apart, January-June 1968 -- Chapter seven : The veneer of civilization, June 1968-April 1969 -- Chapter eight : The history of the world, May 1969-December 1970 -- Seeing Americans again / Bao Ninh -- Chapter nine : A disrespectful loyalty, January 1971-March 1973 -- Vietnam and the movement / Todd Gitlin -- Chapter ten : The weight of memory, March 1973-April 1975 -- Dust of life, dust of war / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 21099341
- Dimensions
- 29 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 612 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307700254
- Lccn
- 2017015686
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- Specific material designation
- unspecified
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981761717
Subject
- 1945-1989
- 1945-1989.
- trueAdult books for young adults
- History
- trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- Vietnam War
- Military
- trueMilitary history
- trueMovie tie-ins
- New titles added
- United States
- trueUnited States -- History -- 1969-
- United States -- History -- 20th century
- trueVietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- trueVietnam War, 1961-1975
- Vietnam-oorlog
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- World politics
- World politics
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