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Vietnam: A History

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by Stanley Karnow

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In the thick of the Ken Burns series. I am looking for another reference on this subject. Buy it?
Peter I agree on the Ken Burns series--too little and too late. There are lots of great books on Viet Nam.

I found Francis FitzGerald's 1972 "Fire in the La…moreI agree on the Ken Burns series--too little and too late. There are lots of great books on Viet Nam.

I found Francis FitzGerald's 1972 "Fire in the Lake" a very helpful history of Vietnam. Its full of information of philosophy, political history, differences between the US and Vietnamese ways of thinking. It is less about the war than about what created the war.

On the war front, I found Mark Bowden's "Hue 1968" to be a powerful description of perhaps the most important battle of the war.
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