The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration?

by John Marciano

Book Overview

On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years - through November 11, 2025 - commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, "more than 58,000 patriots," who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 2.1 million Vietnamese - soldiers, parents, grandparents, children - also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated. And U.S. history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158367585X
• ISBN13: 9781583675854
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"