Call number
TV-D, DVD 14B
Collection
Publication
PBS (2017)
Description
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
Media reviews
Burns and Novick... proclaim their intention to do what few have done: recount the war from not just the American viewpoint but from that of the North and South Vietnamese too... In the end, though, apart from a few sections — including an oddly starry-eyed sketch of Ho Chi Minh — Ward pursues
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this goal of a multinational account in only a desultory, sporadic way.
...If “The Vietnam War” falls short as scholarly or even bedside reading, though, it remains a vivid and often captivating volume — and, construed literally as a companion to the television series, a valuable resource. Show Less
UPC
841887033398
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