America's Lost War: Vietnam 1945 - 1975 (The American History Series)

About this book

In college and high school classrooms across the United States students display a keen interest in knowing more about what they rightly sense was a pivotal event in the recent past one that brought a sea change in the life of the nation. In a long-awaited alternative to the lengthy and overly expensive texts on the Vietnam War Charles Neu presents Americas Lost War a balanced lively narrative account of that tragic conflict one that sweeps across the whole time-span of the war and explores American Vietnamese and international perspectives. Recreating the physical and psychological landscape of the war Neu fluidly describes policy disputesamong leaders of both the United States and North Vietnamas well as individual policy makers battles and military realities tracing the legacy of the Vietnam phenomenon that shapes American domestic politics and elections as well as foreign relations to the present day.