The Vietnam War
  • Published: 17 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473559233
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 864
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The Vietnam War

An Intimate History

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17 May 2018
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1 Oct 2019
Hardback
15 Sep 2017
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An essential work on the Vietnam War, by the award-winning Geoffrey C. Ward and documentary maker Ken Burns.

**The New York Times Bestseller**
**The book of the landmark documentary, The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick**

The definitive work on the Vietnam War, the conflict that came to define a generation, told from all sides by those who were there.

More than forty years after the Vietnam War ended, its legacy continues to fascinate, horrify and inform us. As the first war to be fought in front of TV cameras and beamed around the world, it has been immortalised on film and on the page, and forever changed the way we think about war.

Drawing on hundreds of brand new interviews, Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward have created the definitive work on Vietnam. It is the first book to show us the war from every perspective: from idealistic US Marines and the families they left behind to the Vietnamese civilians, both North and South, whose homeland was changed for ever; politicians, POWs and anti-war protesters; and the photographers and journalists who risked their lives to tell the truth. The book sends us into the grit and chaos of combat, while also expertly outlining the complex chain of political events that led America to Vietnam.

Beautifully written, this essential work tells the full story without taking sides and reminds us that there is no single truth in war. It is set to redefine our understanding of a brutal conflict, to launch provocative new debates and to shed fresh light on the price paid in ‘blood and bone’ by Vietnamese and Americans alike.
  • Published: 17 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473559233
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 864
Categories:

About the authors

Geoffrey C. Ward

Geoffrey C. Ward wrote the script for the film series The War and is the winner of five Emmys and two Writers Guild of America awards for his work for public television. He is also a historian and biographer and the author of fourteen books, including most recently Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989 and the Francis Parkman Prize in 1990. He lives in New York City.

Ken Burns, producer and director of the film series The War, founded his own documentary company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His films include Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, which was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television. His work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.

Ken Burns

KEN BURNS is the legendary producer and director of numerous film series. His landmark film The Civil War was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television. His work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and a nomination for an Academy Award.

Praise for The Vietnam War

Stunning ... the best single-volume history of the war

Mark Bowden, bestselling author of BLACK HAWK DOWN

Ward and Burns take a vast topic and personalize it … an outstanding, indispensable survey of the Vietnam War

Kirkus

Vivid, affecting, definitive

Booklist

Exquisitely written

Guardian

A vivid and often captivating volume … a valuable resource

David Greenberg, New York Times Book Review

Well-written and deeply researched, this history covers virtually every aspect of the French and American wars in Vietnam from 1945-1975, focusing mainly on military, diplomatic, and political issues…. Anyone looking for an expansive overview of the Vietnam War will find much to admire here

Publishers Weekly
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