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"Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." -Chicago Tribune

Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, Patriots is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war.

"A gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely." -The Washington Post Book World

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Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want. (Chicago Tribune)

A gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely. (The Washington Post Book World)

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Christian G. Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of two previous books on the Vietnam War. His oral history of the war, Patriots, was a main selection of Book of the Month Club and won the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction. His most recent book is American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. He lives in Amherst.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books; Reprint edition (September 28, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0142004499
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0142004494
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.52 x 1.3 x 8.48 inches

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Great book, and it definitely opened various levels of understanding of what was the Vietnam War. Since it is based on so many different voices, from all sides of the conflict, and all levels of involvement, it really stands out. The writer knows his business, and the surprises it has revealed from top level government officials, to the grunts on both sides, it makes for a very revealing reading. This is much more information that I was prepared for. The information provided absorbed me completely, and continued throughout the book, to reveal aspects about this tragic war, that I had absolutely no idea had taken place. Everyone knows that each government of most countries always try to make the public agree with their stance regarding military conflicts, but what goes on behind the scenes sometimes can be even shocking to know. How does the average citizen know the intricate details they are basically not supposed to know? Well, this book does that by revealing, from the horses mouths, if I may, the real truth of what happened over there.
The author has done a fine job. I really appreciate this book, which not only covers our side of this terribly wrong war, but the other side as well. From people high in power, generals, reporters, nurses, villagers, a vast array of inputs is what makes this book truly special. Well worth reading and must congratulate Mr. Christian G. Appy for an above average job in presenting this complex narrative of events in a manner that reads more like a novel of short takes. One thing remains unchanged, though, and that is that the american soldier deserves maximum recognition for what they had to endure in that disastrous war. 4.5 Stars!

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This represents a sort of capstone book on the literature of the Vietnam conflict. That is, if you've read most of the work that has come out since 1973 or so, each carving out a particular piece of the puzzle, then this is an excellent synopsis of all the various elements and constituencies and affected communities of that tragic implosion of American political culture and the needless-pointless devastation of Vietnam. If you've read the other stuff, you can read this and then maybe let it go. Maybe...

On the other hand, if you've read nothing else about the conflict played out in Vietnam from 1943-1975, this would be a superb starting point or summary of the scope of those events. For example, it might disabuse you of the errant notion that US involvement lasted from 1965-1973. Or that it was a "civil war" into which the US entered to stop the violence. You might learn that, like most of the US' interventions purportedly to save democracy and freedom, this one served to spawn the self-defensive reaction to it by the indigenous folks.

And this is one author who is not afraid to use the terms working class, Liberation Army (ILO the epithetic VC), NLF, PAVN (ILO the misnomer NVA), and to recognize there was no South Vietnam which the inhabitants related to as a national entity, worth fighting and dying for; hence the much ballyhooed "combat aversiveness" of the ARVN.

This is an exceptionally well-organized and finely-crafted work of oral history, with the author's narratives serving to orient the reader to the context of each successive section. Long awaited but well worth it.

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Not "from All Sides" at all!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2003

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As a Marine Vietnam veteran (1966-1967), I found myself increasingly irritated as I read through this collection of interviews. The author states he did not include a lot of his material because of space limitations. I would hope that he also interviewed former South Vietnamese army men (ARVN) as well as ex- Northerners and former VC spouting the party line about their heroic efforts against the "puppet troops". Having returned to Vietnam four times in the past ten years, I know it is not a difficult to find these people many of whom were "re-educated " for prolonged periods after 1975. A large number of these individuals who were not able to to leave the country have found it very hard to to find work being essentially blacklisted by the communist hierarchy . I recall a former South Vietnamese Marine who gets by as a Saigon cyclo driver and proudly shows visiting Americans his photo in uniform and tells them he "has a special place in my heart for you Americans who did so much to try and help my country." He offered me a ride and refused any payment. By the way, it's primarily the bureaucrats who call the former South Vietnamese capitol "Ho Chi Minh City.'!
The list of interviewees overall is certainly heavy on the anti-war side. How did the author miss Jane Fonda? Among American veterans, it would have been interesting for readers to hear for example from a member of one of the seldom publicized Marine CAP units composed of a small group of Marines and a Navy Corpsmen who lived in rural hamlets with the Vietnamese. Working on village projects, providing medical treatment and helping with security, these units were very effective, and a number of men became so involved that they extended their tours of duty.
I was also bothered by the lack of documentation to statements and quotations in the introductory passages to each section. Questions arise as to their even-handedness when the reader is led to expect historical neutrality.
All that being said, I credit the author for some fascinating material. However a balanced oral history "from All Sides' it is not! Mr. Appy, whether you intended it that way or not, your own personal biases are showing!

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Is this the same book as "Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History" by the same author?

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I purchased this book recently and although I haven't read it word for word it seems almost identical to "The Definitive Oral History" by the same author - it has the same contributions by Oliver Stone, for example - which I already had. It is a great book but don't buy both - I would get the Definitive Oral History which was published later.

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