A graphically told history of the Vietnam War, interweaving U.S. political and cultural history with the military history of the war.

When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam," everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touchstone for U.S. military misadventures--a war lost on the home front although never truly lost on the battlefront. During the pivotal decade of 1962 to 1972, U.S. involvement rose from a few hundred advisers to a fighting force of more than one million. This same period saw the greatest schism in American society since the Civil War, a generational divide pitting mothers and fathers against sons and daughters who protested the country's ever-growing military involvement in Vietnam. Meanwhile, well-intentioned decisions in Washington became operational orders with tragic outcomes in the rice paddies, jungles, and villages of Southeast Asia.

Through beautifully rendered artwork, The Vietnam War: A Graphic History depicts the course of the war from its initial expansion in the early 1960s through the evacuation of Saigon in 1975, and what transpired at home, from the antiwar movement and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to the Watergate break-in and the resignation of a president.

Author: Mactavish
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 09/15/2009
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.34w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780809094950


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/15/2009 pg. 38
Booklist 08/01/2009 pg. 50

About the Author

DWIGHT JON ZIMMERMAN has written extensively on military-history subjects for American Heritage, the Naval Institute Press, Vietnam Magazine, and numerous military-themed publications. His books include The Hammer and the Anvil and the Founder's Award-winning Uncommon Valor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

WAYNE VANSANT is the illustrator of The 'Nam and The Vietnam War: A Graphic History, among many other works. He lives in Mableton, Georgia.

CHUCK HORNER is a retired United States Air Force Four-Star General who flew in combat during the Vietnam War.