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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil Conflict, Baseball, The Conflict, The Roosevelts, among others: a stunning, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America aside - the friend volume to the major multipart PBS film to be shown in September 2017. A lot more than 40 years after it ended, the Vietnam Conflict continues to haunt our country. We still claim over why we have there been, whether we could have earned, and who was simply right and wrong in their reaction to the conflict. If the war divided the country, it created profound political mistake lines that continue steadily to separate us today. Now, continuing in the tradition of these critically acclaimed collaborations, the authors draw on dozens and dozens of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of individuals involved whatsoever levels of the warfare: US and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level officials in America and Vietnam, antiwar protestors, POWs, and many more. The book plunges us in to the chaos and level of combat, even while it explains the rationale that got us into Vietnam and retained us there for so many years. Instead of taking factors, the book seeks to understand why the warfare happened just how it did also to clarify its complicated legacy. Superbly written, this is a travel de force that's sure to launch a fresh national conversation.
