Research Catalog

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Description

1. 150 pages : illustrations, map; 27 cm

Summary

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

Subject

1. 1961-1975
2. Juvenile works
3. Literature
4. History
5. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Juvenile literature
6. Vietnam War (1961-1975)

Genre/Form

1. Literature.
2. History.
3. Juvenile works.

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFF 17-19

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-145) and index.

Author

1. Freedman, Russell, 1929-2018, author.

Title

1. Vietnam : a history of a war / Russell Freedman.

Publisher

1. New York : Holiday House, [2016]

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-145) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1961-1975

LCCN

1. 2016001051

ISBN

1. 9780823436583 (hardcover)
2. 0823436586 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JFF 17-19