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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 959.7043
EAN: 9780060921071
ISBN: 0060921072
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: September 25, 1991
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: September 25, 1991
Studio: Harper Perennial
Features:- ISBN13: 9780060921071
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This book focuses on the American experience in Vietnam. Young's period delimits the period directly before and directly after American involvement in Vietnam. Her archive is vast. She gives the reader useful information to frames American presence in Vietnam. In this book, we read about discussion on the highest levels among American and Vietnamese leaders. As readers, we are more in her bias. Young argues that the American and South Vietnamese military and governments were responsible for the destruction ... Read More
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This is a garden variety history of the Vietnam War from the hard left perspective. Aside from one's preferences, the book suffers from a couple of serious flaws. First of all, Young systematically highlights accounts of the waging of the war which make the US look like an awful country guilty of war crimes and atrocities--crimes that were a natural outgrowth of the kind of army the US sent there. But Young does not hold the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong to the same standard, and even downplays communist ... Read More
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When I decided to write a serious historiography on the Vietnam War, in particulair the years 1969-1971,I chose a plethora of secondary sources to begin my study. While carefully noting that the Indochina conflict has garnered numerous polar opposits, amongst its ranks of historians, some still, despite being backed up by numerous sources( some questionable) seem to be 'over the top'. This book, "The Vietnam Wars" takes the crown for all time biased writing. I thought Michael Herr was bad, wow, what was I thinking. ... Read More
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Other reviewers have made it clear that this book is not really an attempt at history but is so biased that it is far more a polemic than a history book . I would however expect that someone with Ms. Young's credentials get some basic facts straight . For example on page 3 Ms. Young states that the meeting that resulted in the unification of the Indochinese Communist Party was held in Hong Kong on 18 February 1930 . In fact , the meeting was held 3-7 February . This is not a difficult fact to get correctly as Vietnam ... Read More
Rating:  -
Very well written, with lots of good reference material. Though I share the authors opposition to the Vietnam War I think she turns a blind eye to some of the atrocities committed by VC and NVA. All in all a good book.
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