Best books about Vietnam war?

Patrick

I was wondering what are some the best books about the Vietnam war? I was thinking about picking some up and learning more about it

Answer
Summons of the Trumpet: A History of the Vietnam War from a Military Man's Viewpoint by Dave Richard Palmer

On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War by Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr.

Why we were in Vietnam by Norman Podhoretz

Secrets of the Vietnam War by fLt. General Phillip B. Davidson

Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War by James F Dunningan and Albert A Nofi

Liberals are going to urge you to read The 10,000 Day War. If you do remember it is a biased anti-American pro-Communist piece of propaganda.

good, non-personal books on the vietnam war?

spinelcooo

Hi. I am interested in the vietnam war.
There are many books on it. However, many of these books are also personal accounts, I dont want to read a personal account, not because they are not interesting, but because I fear they may not give me the overcview and at least reasonable objectivity that I am looking for.
Can someone please tell me a book which places vietnam in a historical context, explains the facts, figures, politics, conditions, as well as the aftermath and effects of that.
ie comprehensive?
thanks!

Answer
Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict by Michael Lind

Ending the Vietnam War : A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War by Henry Kissinger

China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 (The New Cold War History) by Qiang Zhai

Why The North Won The Vietnam War by Marc Jason Gilbert

The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War Culture, Politics, and t) by Maureen Ryan

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History by Spencer C. Tucker

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