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Book

Vietnam : a history of the war

Call Number

  • J 959.7 FREE (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Holiday House, [2016]

Physical Description

150 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm

Audience

Middle School.

Summary

An account of the Vietnam War describes how it began, why it was so difficult to end, and how its tragic legacy endures today.

Contents

  • The last man to die in Vietnam
  • The Vietnamese : the long road to revolution
  • Ho Chi Minh : the making of a revolutionary
  • Ho Chi Minh meets the OSS
  • The French war in Vietnam : the elephant and the tiger
  • Tumbling dominoes
  • Ngo Dinh Diem : America's miracle man in Saigon
  • The last days of President Diem
  • From the Tonkin Gulf to Rolling Thunder
  • The American war in Vietnam
  • The antiwar movement
  • The Tet Offensive
  • The beginning of the end
  • The fall of Saigon
  • Reconciliation.

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