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100 | 1 | _aWARD Geoffrey C | |
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_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. |
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_aNew York : _bAlfred A Knopf, _c2017 |
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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) | ||
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_aHISTORY _x MILITARY _x VIETNAM |
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650 | _aWORLD POLITICS | ||
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