More than forty years after its conclusion, the Vietnam War is a persistent wound on the American psyche. It is a war that divided families and communities, and sparked massive protests on college ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Vietnam ... from the perspective of the war's three primary belligerents: the Vietnamese communists, the South Vietnamese, and the ...

“I had probably the most embarrassing capture in the entire Vietnam War,” Hegdahl said in a 1997 interview Leepson quotes in the book. “I found that my defense posture was just to play dum ...

As Paul Ham wrote in his definitive book Vietnam: the Australian War: “Along the grand ... On the basis that the early bird ...

Attitudes shaped by World War II were not always a good fit in the Vietnam era. Decisions that might have previously gone unchallenged now generated substantial protest. One of the unique pieces ...

In his 1999 book Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America’s Most Disastrous Military Conflict, Michael Lind argues that the United States had to fight in Vietnam to prove that ...