A People's History Of The Vietnam War / Edition 1

by Jonathan Neale

Overview

This latest addition to The New Press's People's History series offers an incisive account of the war America lost, from the perspective of those who opposed it on both sides of the battlefront as well as on the homefront.

The protagonists in Neale's history of the "American War" (as the Vietnamese refer to it) are common people struggling to shape the outcome of events unfolding on an international stage—American foot soldiers who increasingly opposed American military policy on the ground in Vietnam, local Vietnamese activists and guerrillas fighting to build a just society, and the American civilians who mobilized to bring the war to a halt.

His narrative includes vivid, first-person commentary from the ordinary men and women whose collective actions resulted in the defeat of the world's most powerful military machine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565849433
Publisher:	New Press, The
Publication date:	09/03/2004
Series:	New Press People's History
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jonathan Neale has written eleven plays, three novels, and four nonfiction books. His most recent books are The Naked Mountain, about Sherpa climbers, and Lost at Sea, a children's novel. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

	Series Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Chronology	xiii
	Introduction	1
1	The Vietnamese	8
2	Why America Intervened	43
3	Firepower	74
4	Guerrillas	98
5	Protesters	126
6	The GIs' Revolt	149
7	Vietnam and Cambodia After the War	185
8	America and the World After the War	218
	Further Reading	271
	Notes	275
	Bibliography	289
	Index	299

Editorial Reviews

"Neale's interpretation of events is clear, bold, and confident. A radical and well-written interpretation of the Vietnam War." —Marilyn Young, author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990

"Something remarkable and rare—a survey of the American War in Vietnam that is lively, accessible, idiosyncratic, opinionated, and rangy." —Christian G. Appy, author of Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam

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