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Zusatztext Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War! this is the one you want. ( Chicago Tribune ) A gem of a book! as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely. ( The Washington Post Book World ) Informationen zum Autor Christian G. Appy Klappentext "Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." - Chicago Tribune Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, Patriots is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war. "A gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely." - The Washington Post Book World Zusammenfassung "Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War! this is the one you want." - Chicago Tribune Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict! from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective! often raw and emotional! they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Americans and Vietnamese! generals and grunts! policymakers and protesters! guerrillas and CIA operatives! pilots and doctors! artists and journalists! and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing! inspiring! and revelatory! Patriots is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war. "A gem of a book! as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely." - The Washington Post Book World Inhaltsverzeichnis PatriotsPreface Part One: Introductions Commanders Bernard Trainor: It turned out the major of Danang was a double agent Dang Vu Hiep: With all those choppers they seemed terribly strong War Heroes Roger Donlon: We were babes in arms in every way Tran Thi Gung: I was stuck in a tunnel for seven days Paying the Price Ta Quang Thinh: They carried me the whole way back to the North George Watkins: That sand was probably the only thing that saved me Phan Xuan Sinh: Ail my ancestors are buried here Where is Vietnam? Jo Collins: I just thought I was going to Europe Deirdre English: How can my country be at war and I don't know about it? Part Two: Beginnings (1945-64) History Is Not Made with IFS Henry Prunier: These were not ragtag farmers Yo Nguyen Giap: The most atrocious conflict in human history Deliver Us From Evil Daniel Redmond: The doctor who won the war in Indochina Rufus Phillips: Tell 'em I'm not French before they lynch me Ngo Vinh Long: If they're making maps, they're preparing for war Kick the Tires and Light the Fires <...
