Vietnam: A History
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few conflicts have scarred the modern world as deeply as the Vietnam War, and Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History stands as the most comprehensive and authoritative chronicle of that devastating struggle ever written. Spanning centuries of Vietnamese resistance — from the ancient battles against Chinese domination to the catastrophic decades of French colonialism and the bloody American military intervention — Karnow reconstructs a nation's relentless fight for self-determination with the precision of a seasoned journalist and the sweep of a master historian. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with key figures on all sides of the conflict, including American commanders, North Vietnamese generals, and ordinary soldiers and civilians, he presents a panoramic narrative that refuses to reduce the war to simple ideology or political convenience. Karnow's prose is both rigorously researched and compulsively readable, balancing strategic analysis with deeply human portraits of the individuals who shaped — and were destroyed by — the conflict. Originally published as the companion volume to the acclaimed PBS television series, Vietnam: A History won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1990, cementing its place as the definitive account of America's most controversial war. It is a work that forces every reader to confront uncomfortable questions about power, hubris, and the true cost of a war that neither side fully understood — questions that resonate far beyond the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Author: Stanley Karnow
Format: Paperback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few conflicts have scarred the modern world as deeply as the Vietnam War, and Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History stands as the most comprehensive and authoritative chronicle of that devastating struggle ever written. Spanning centuries of Vietnamese resistance — from the ancient battles against Chinese domination to the catastrophic decades of French colonialism and the bloody American military intervention — Karnow reconstructs a nation's relentless fight for self-determination with the precision of a seasoned journalist and the sweep of a master historian. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with key figures on all sides of the conflict, including American commanders, North Vietnamese generals, and ordinary soldiers and civilians, he presents a panoramic narrative that refuses to reduce the war to simple ideology or political convenience. Karnow's prose is both rigorously researched and compulsively readable, balancing strategic analysis with deeply human portraits of the individuals who shaped — and were destroyed by — the conflict. Originally published as the companion volume to the acclaimed PBS television series, Vietnam: A History won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1990, cementing its place as the definitive account of America's most controversial war. It is a work that forces every reader to confront uncomfortable questions about power, hubris, and the true cost of a war that neither side fully understood — questions that resonate far beyond the jungles of Southeast Asia.