A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 - Hardcover

Schulzinger, Robert D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195071891 ISBN 13: 9780195071894

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Based on newly available primary sources, both in private and public archives, a full-length history of the Vietnam conflict based entirely on primary material encompasses three decades of war and paints a political and social portrait of the times. UP.

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Review:

Thoroughly researched, well written, and persuasive in its conclusions, it deserves a wide readership. (Los Angeles Times Book Review _)

Synopsis:

Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt American culture. From "Forrest Gump" to "Miss Saigon", from Tim O'Brien's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Going After Cacciato" to Robert McNamara's controversial memoir "In Retrospect", Americans are drawn to ponder their long, tragic involvement in Southeast Asia. Now historian Robert D. Schulzinger has combed the newly available documentary evidence, both in public and private archives, to produce an account of three decades of war in Vietnam. Ranging from the first rumblings against the French to the American intervention and ultimate withdrawal, Schulzinger paints a political, diplomatic, and social portrait of this tragic, diverse conflict.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195071891
• ISBN 13: 9780195071894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 397