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Vietnam : a history of the war / Russell Freedman.

by Freedman, Russell.

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Holiday House, c2016.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Juvenile literature.

9780823436583 (hardcover)

0823436586 (hardcover)

150 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The last man to die in Vietnam -- The Vietnamese: the long road to revolution -- Ho Chi Minh: the making of a revolutionary -- Ho Chi Minh meets the OSS -- The French war in Vietnam: the elephant and the tiger -- Tumbling dominoes -- Ngo Dinh Diem: America's miracle man in Saigon -- The last days of President Diem -- From the Tonkin Gulf to Rolling Thunder -- The American war in Vietnam -- The antiwar movement -- The Tet Offensive -- The beginning of the end -- The fall of Saigon -- Reconciliation.

Was the Vietnam War a tragic mistake? Or was it, as President Ronald Reagan would claim, "a noble cause"? In an enthralling book, Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman provides a succinct account of perhaps the most puzzling and contentious of America's wars. Describing how a superpower caught up in Cold War politics became increasingly enmeshed in a conflict over 8,000 miles away, he then explains why twenty years later an exit was so difficult. In words and photographs he chronicles the unfolding events in Vietnam and at home as increasing numbers of young men were sent into the jungles to fight. After assessing the catastrophic damage, Freedman concludes the book with a hopeful epilogue on Vietnam today. A glossary, source notes, bibliography and index are included.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

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