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DK Eyewitness Books: Vietnam War

by DK Author

(From Amazon): A visual and informative guide to one of the longest and most controversial wars in American history, now revised and updated in the relaunched DK Eyewitness Books format.Explore the people, places, battles, and weapons of America's Indochina struggle with DK Eyewitness Books: Vietnam War. See campaigns in the air and battles in jungles, cities, and rice paddies, from Saigon to the Mekong Delta. Learn about the most powerful combat weapons of the age, including napalm bombs and M-60 machine guns. From the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Viet Cong to the war's aftermath, discover the Vietnam War, why America went to war in Indochina, and who fought there.Now available for the first time in paperback, DK Eyewitness Books: Vietnam War tells the dramatic story of patriotism, tragedy, bloody conflict, and heroism.Series Overview: Each revised Eyewitness book retains the stunning artwork and photography from the groundbreaking original series, but the text has been reduced and reworked to speak more clearly to younger readers. Still on every colorful page: vibrant annotated photographs and the integrated text-and-pictures approach that makes Eyewitness a perennial favorite of parents, teachers, and school-age kids.

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Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
978-0-7566-1166-8
Print Status
In Print
Chapters
31
Pages
72
Publisher
DK Children
Edition
American ed.
Copyright
2005

Chapters

  • 1 War in French Indochina
  • 2 U.S. Advisors in Vietnam
  • 3 Gulf of Tonkin Incident
  • 4 Communist and U.S. Allies
  • 5 The Leaders
  • 6 Saigon and Hanoi
  • 7 Rolling Thunder
  • 8 The Ho Chi Minh Trail
  • 9 Napalm and Agent Orange
  • 10 Central Highland struggle
  • 11 Weapons of war
  • 12 On patrol
  • 13 Medical care and evacuation
  • 14 Heliborne warfare
  • 15 Warplanes in combat
  • 16 The Television War
  • 17 The Mekong Delta
  • 18 War on inland waters
  • 19 Villages in wartime
  • 20 Tunnels
  • 21 Khe Sanh and Tet
  • 22 The antiwar movement
  • 23 U.S. withdrawal begins
  • 24 Last air assaults
  • 25 Prisoners of war
  • 26 The fall of Siagon
  • 27 Aftermath
  • 28 Did you know?
  • 29 Timeline
  • 30 Find out more
  • 31 Glossary

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