When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, “Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam,” everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touch...
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Dec 13, 2010
Eli
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The book The Vietnam War by Jon Zimmerman and Wayne Vansant, is a very gripping and heroic story told in graphic novel form. Some of the important Information is where this book took place and some of the plans that they had to beat Vietnam such as operation masher used by the USA. This book is structured as a graphic novel. The book is split up into parts these parts are named after what is going on then in the story and for one part the time period. There are pictures in the story. These pictu
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Dec 03, 2009
David
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This was partially good and partially incomplete, (I read it in an hour and a half yesterday). It gives very little background to the origins of the Vietnam War, (i.e., the French in Indochina or the historical struggle of the Vietnamese people to break free of foreign invaders over a thousand years) and is sketchy about the war before President Johnson takes over in 1963. On the other hand, it does provide alot of military history for someone interested in that kind of thing, that is, the mil
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Jan 04, 2012
Michael
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An excellent primer on the war, but the "suggested reading" list at the back of the book is where you should head next. This gives a great overview but it's very "in the moment." There's not enough about the century of French colonialism or, really, the legacy and the real extent of how it has influenced every U.S. military action since. And maybe I was reading too much into it, but I thought they made Richard Nixon out to be oddly magnificent, justifying most of his controve
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Mar 24, 2010
Wayne
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Having lived during that era, I would have thought I would have cared a little more for this book. I enlisted in the service in January 1974 and am called a Vietnam Era Veteran. Another words the war was over. Lucky for me. It was always on TV on the evening news etc., but nowadays I don't think I'm far enough removed from that era to appreciate this. I had to fight to finish this. I was just kind of bored and didn't really like all the art. Some of it was great, but the faces bugged me for some
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Jan 05, 2010
Becca
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The artwork in the book is amazing, you can hear the helicopters and feel like you're watching LBJ in the flesh. The overview is good for what it is...an overview. It doesn't delve very deep into the history of the conflict, but it's worth it for the artwork and as an introductory overview text.
Jul 07, 2010
Charles
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I wish more history books were adapted as graphic novels. It makes learning so much more engaging than reading dry, stuffy textbooks.
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