The Vietnam War : An Encyclopedia of Quotations

The story of the Vietnam conflict is told through the words of the famous, infamous, and anonymous This is the story of the Vietnam War told through quotations in chronological sequence.

Starting with the beginnings of Vietnamese history, it traces the events preceding the French war, continues through the American war, and ends with its aftermath.

All sides of the controversy are represented. Here are the voices of warriors, presidents, generals, government leaders, civilians, aid workers, pilots, infantrymen, nurses, historians, war correspondents, sociologists, POWs, peasants, draft dodgers, guerrillas, and war resisters.

They speak from government capitals, hooches, hospital wards, jungle trails, landing zones, aircraft carriers, draft boards, Buddhist temples, and prison cells.

They talk of firefights, ambushes in the jungle, bombing raids, coups, assassinations, suicides, demonstrations, atrocities, and teach-ins.

Here are Ho Chi Minh, Lyndon Johnson, Vo Nguyen Giap, Westmoreland, Kennedy, De Gaulle, Eisenhower, Nixon, McNamara, Kissinger, and many less prominent people who played their part in events. Extracts include a propaganda broadcast by "Hanoi Hannah" from the North Vietnamese capital; John McCain describing what it was like to be shot down over enemy territory and taken prisoner; John Kerry telling a U.S.

Senate committee why he opposed the war. The reader will learn about My Lai, Agent Orange, Kent State, the Pentagon Papers, and the plan to free American POWs that went awry.

Features include a chronology, biographical sketches, Medal of Honor winners, bibliography, nineteen photos, and an index..

About 300 quotes, most of them primary documents, representing all sides of opinion on the Vietnam War.

Addresses a subject that is of high interest, in the light of the US presence in Iraq