Publisher's Synopsis
A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history.
- Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race.
- Covers the breadth of Vietnam War history, including American war policies, the Vietnamese perspective, the antiwar movement, and the American home front.
- Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.
- Includes a select bibliography to guide further research.
