Author: Grant, Reg
Publisher: World Almanac Library
Year: 2005
ISBN: 0836856678
Binding: Pictorial Cover
Book Condition: As New
Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Description:
New book, 64 pages. This book explores the long and costly civil war pitting South Vietnamese and U.S. forces against South Vietnamese and U.S. forces against communist guerrillas and North Vietnamese troops. It examines the conflict's roots in the Vietnamese rebellion against French colonialism after World War II and charts the increasing role of the United States, which seeking to contain communism, ultimately committed large numbers of troops to the war. The book chronicles the impact of the war for civilians and soldiers alike, from the horrors of combat to antiwar demonstrations in the United States to the final withdrawal of U.S. forces in the early 1970s. This book also reveals why, although it ended in 1975, the Vietnam War continues to haunt both the United States and the people of Southeast Asia.