e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Publisher Weekly Review
School Library Journal Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Partridge, Elizabeth.
Subjects
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Partridge, Elizabeth.
by title:
Boots on the ground ...
by call number:
959.7043373 P275b
Search the Web
Partridge, Elizabeth.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
MARC Display
Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam / Elizabeth Partridge.
by
Partridge, Elizabeth.
Viking, c2018.
Call #:
959
.7043373
P275b
Subjects
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
ISBN:
9780670785063 (hbk.)
9780142423752 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
America's war in Vietnam
Description:
213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Parental advisory: contains some offensive language.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (Pages 206-210) and index.
Contents:
Prologue (November 1968) -- Vietnam: Military advisor, Mike Horan (May 1962-June 1963) -- America: President and Commander in Chief, John F. Kennedy (November 1963) -- America: President and Commander in Chief, Lyndon B. Johnson (August 1964-December 1965) -- Vietnam: Boots on the grouond, Gilbert de la O (October 1965-September 1966) -- America: Protestor, Martin Luther King Jr. (January 1967-October 1967) -- Vietnam: Machine gunner, Henry Allen (April 1967-May 1968) -- America: President and Commander in Chief, Lyndon B. Johnson (October 1969-February 1968) -- Vietnam: Medic, Tom Kelley (December 1967-December 1968) -- America: President and Commander in Chief, Lyndon B. Johnson (March 1968-December 1968) -- America: President and Commander in Chief, Richard M. Nixon (January 1969) -- Vietnam: Infantryman, Jan Scruggs (April 1969-April 1970) -- America: President and Commander in Chief, Richard M. Nixon (February 1969-June 1969) -- Vietnam: Green Beret, David Oshiro (May 1969-May 1970) -- America: Protest singer, Country Joe McDonald (August 1969-March 1970) -- Vietnam: Nurse, Lily Lee Adams (October 1969-October 1970) -- America: President and Commander in Chief, Richard M. Nixon (October 1969-August 1974) -- America: President and Commander in Chief, Gerald K. Ford (March 1975-April 1975) -- Vietnam: Refugee, Hoa thi Nguyen (March 1975-April 1975) -- America: Veteran, Jan Scruggs (April 1975-March 1979) -- America: Memorial designer, Maya Lin (October 1980-July 1982) -- America: The National Salute to Vietnam Veterans, The veterans (November 10-14, 1982) -- Epilogue -- What became of the men and women interviewed for Boots on the Ground?
Summary:
An exploration of the Vietnam War from many different perspectives including an American soldier's, a nurse, and a Vietnamese refugee. The history of the Vietnam war is complex. Partridge explores the war from eight different perspectives: six American soldiers, one American military nurse, and one Vietnamese refugee. Each individual reveals a difference facet of the war and moves us forward in time. Partridge also profiles key American leaders and events, to remind us of all that was happening at home; and highlights veteran's struggles to acclimate to life after Vietnam
Audience:
Ages 12 up.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Tantallon Public Library
Young Adult Nonfiction
959.7043373 P275b
Ya Books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.