NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Based on the celebrated PBS television series,
the complete text of an engrossing history of America's least-understood
conflict, "a significant milestone [that] will no doubt do much to
determine how the war is understood for years to come." --The
Washington Post***
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*More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but
its memory continues to loom large in the national psyche. In this
intimate history, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns have crafted a fresh
and insightful account of the long and brutal conflict that reunited
Vietnam while dividing the United States as nothing else had since the
Civil War. From the Gulf of Tonkin and the Tet Offensive to Hamburger
Hill and the fall of Saigon, Ward and Burns trace the conflict that
dogged three American presidents and their advisers. But most of the
voices that echo from these pages belong to less exalted men and
women--those who fought in the war as well as those who fought against
it, both victims and victors--willing for the first time to share their
memories of Vietnam as it really was. A magisterial tour de force, The
Vietnam War is an engrossing history of America's least-understood
conflict.
