The Vietnam War: A Documentary Reader (Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History)

The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primarydocuments related to America’s conflict in Vietnam whichincludes a balance of original American and Vietnameseperspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights intoboth American and Vietnamese experiences.

• Includes substantial non-American content, including manyoriginal English translations of Vietnamese-authored texts whichshowcase the diversity and complexity of Vietnamese experiencesduring the war
• Contains original American documents germane to the continuingdebates about the causes, consequences and morality of the USintervention
• Incorporates personal histories of individual Americans andVietnamese
• Introductory headnotes place each document in context
• Features a range of non-textual documents, including iconicphotographs and political cartoons