The Vietnam War

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1984897748 ISBN13: 9781984897749 Release Date: March 2020 Publisher: Vintage Length: 864 Pages Weight: 2.45 lbs. Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2" The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Vietnam War--based on the celebrated PBS television series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its memory continues to loom large in the national psyche. In this intimate history, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns have crafted a fresh and insightful account of the long and brutal conflict that reunited Vietnam while dividing the United States as nothing else had since the Civil War. From the Gulf of Tonkin and the Tet Offensive to Hamburger Hill and the fall of Saigon, Ward and Burns trace the conflict that dogged three American presidents and their advisers. But most of the voices that echo from these pages belong to less exalted men and women--those who foug