Vietnam - A History: The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War

Karnow, Stanley; Stanley Karnow

ISBN 10: 0670746045 / ISBN 13: 9780670746040

Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1983

About this Item

750 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket shows minimal wear. Over sized and/or overweight book; may require extra postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge, both domestically and/or internationally.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vietnam - A History: The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War
• Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670746045
• ISBN 13: 9780670746040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Catherine Karnow (Author Photo); Richard Adelson (Jacket Design); Bruno Barbey-Magnum (Jacket Photo)
• Edition: Copyright © 1983
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military Studies, Warfare, Terrorism, Nuclear St.
  • History, American & US History
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

About this title

Synopsis

An in-depth study of American involvement in Vietnam, from French dominion to the final withdrawal of American forces, discusses the historical background, political maneuvers, military campaigns, participants in, and consequences of American involvement.

About the Author

Stanley Karnow, born in New York City in 1925, served in the U.S. army in the China - Burma - India Theater during World War II, graduated from Harvard and attended the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politques in Paris. He began his journalistic career in Paris in 1950 as a Time correspondent. He went to Asia for Time and Life in 1959 and subsequently reported from there for The Washington Post. He was a correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, the London Observer and NBC News. While serving as an editor of the New Republic, he was also a columnist for Newsweek International King Features. Mr Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. His other books include Mao and China: From Revolution Revolution. He served as chief correspondent for the series "Vietnam: A Television History," for which he won six Emmys and shared in the Dupont, Peabody and Polk Awards. He was also chief correspondent and narrator of "The U.S. and the Phillippines: In Our Image." A resident of Potomac, Maryland, Stanley Karnow is married, and has three children and two grandchildren.