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100 1 _aWARD Geoffrey C
245 _aThe Vietnam War :
_ban intimate history /
_cGeoffrey C. Ward ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick ; with an introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
260 _aNew York :
_bAlfred A Knopf,
_c2017
300 _axiii, 612 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
500 _aPicture research by Salimah El-Amin with Lucas B. Frank.
520 _aThis volume draws on hundreds of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war: U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level officials in America and Vietnam, antiwar protestors, POWs, and many more, seeking to understand why the war happened the way it did, and to clarify its complicated legacy.
650 _aVIETNAM WAR (1961-1975)
650 _aHISTORY
_x MILITARY
_x VIETNAM
650 _aWORLD POLITICS
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