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Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides Paperback – September 28, 2004

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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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September 28, 2004
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5.5 x 1.37 x 8.44 inches
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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)

About the Author

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 Publishing Group; Reprint edition (September 28, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0142004499
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0142004494
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.18 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.37 x 8.44 inches

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Java Man Carlini

Out-#%&*~$^-standing!

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015

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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.

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2008

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A number of things jumped out at me reading this book. Westmoreland and Rostow still don't get it. Maybe it's too painful to reevaluate and admit your mistakes caused so much death. Several pilots, who never seem to have gotten to know Vietnam, also don't get it. How could they with all the time they put in drinking? The closer you were to the real world of Vietnam the more likely you were to see what was happening, and the reality changed a number of hawks into doves. I was most impressed by the analyses of both Jonathan Schell and Daniel Ellsberg. Schell for his idea of the US as a kind of domino, the need to show strength in a nuclear world. And Ellsberg for the way he connects Watergate, Nixon's paranoia and Vietnam. Everyone should read this book. It's pretty clear the application of a military solution to Vietnam was a huge mistake. I took the point of view that anyone who disagreed with this idea, so many years later, had some kind of blinders on and it was interesting to figure out what they were.

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Eddie Wannabee

4.5 Stars!

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2013

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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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Allan M. Boyd

Finest of the Finest

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2012

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Professor Appy has a real winner here. Hundreds of interviews from all levels of American and Vietnamese Society - Tell it like it happened - Their personal accounts all consolidated into a revealing story of truth about this controversial war, the war that should never have occurred. What a sham, scam, and horrific waste to human beings. I find it difficult to understand how God could be so merciful and forgiving to right the immorality associated with post WWII Vietnam. The immoralty of the selective service system, the lies projected to the American public by four U.S. Presidents over a period of 20+ years, and the extremes that some to go to for the sake of power, manipulation, maintenance of the status quo, and the absence of respect for the poor and working-class men who fought to contain communism. How wrong I was to believe in the American Dream and the respect for America in general. How does an "All-American Boy" of the 1950's, 60's, and 70's, make amends for his mistakes? How can he say, "Piss on America" and really mean it?

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John A. Graham

Awesome balanced collection of autobiographical war stories and politics

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2017

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Awesome balanced collection of autobiographical war stories and politics of soldiers, civilians, supporters and resisters from both sides. Well compiled and well edited. It did bring back memories I successfully suppressed, but I knew that risk when I started reading. It confirms a lot of the old doubts, conjectures, and truth providing a balanced hindsight of other's experiences like mine, A friend loaned me his copy and I ended up buying a copy for myself because it is worth rereading.

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

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2009

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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.

Arthur R Clinton

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on April 28, 2018

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