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Vietnam: A History
Vietnam A History
Author: Stanley Karnow
ISBN-13: 9780140145335
ISBN-10: 0140145338
Publication Date: 11/1/1991
Pages: 784
Edition: RevUpdtd
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed Vietnam: A History on + 19 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Companion to the PBS television series
booktopia avatar reviewed Vietnam: A History on
Helpful Score: 1
This monumental narrative clarifies, analyzes, and demystifies the tragic ordeal of the Vietnam war. Free of ideological bias, profound in its understanding, and compassionate in its human portrayals, it is filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with the participants - French, American, Vietnamese, Chinese: diplomats, military commanders, high government officials, journalists, nurses, workers, and soldiers. 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.
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A good history of Vietnam war.
ocicat avatar reviewed Vietnam: A History on + 114 more book reviews
An excellent study of a very tender subject. Objective.
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Rather pro-communist slant. Pretty much goes right along with the PBS series that ran back in the early 1980's.