The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War

By: Anderson, David

Book Overview

More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as hotly debated as ever. Why did successive administrations choose little-known Vietnam as the "test case" of American commitment in the fight against communism? Why were the "best and brightest" apparently blind to the illegitimacy of the state of South...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231114923
• ISBN13: 9780231114929
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12