
Vietnam
A History
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Narrado por:
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Edward Holland
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De:
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Stanley Karnow
Panoramic in scope, and filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with hundreds of participants on both sides, Vietnam: A History transcends the past and contains lessons relevant to the present and future.
©1997 WBGH Educational Foundation and Stanley Karnow (P)1998 Blackstone Audio Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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"This is history writing at its best." (Chicago Sun Times)
"[T]he best journalist writing on Asian affairs." (Newsweek)
"Even those of us who think we know something about [the Vietnam War] will read with fascination." (New York Times)
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A Must Read Even For a Vet.
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What made the experience of listening to Vietnam the most enjoyable?
The author was a Vietnam correspondent beginning in 1959. He was there! He managed to get personal interviews with many of the top key players before and after the fall of Saigon laying out an extraordinary vista from the initial intercourse with Europeans to the deluge at the USA's ignoble retreat there. Beautifully done, verging on poetic at times. I may not agree with many of the conclusions he leads towards in this tome but it is well thought out and clearly expressed. Bravo! Well done!The reader does an excellent job as well.
very well writen history by an eyewitness
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Would you consider the audio edition of Vietnam to be better than the print version?
Yes it is, very easy to listen to, the names and places are difficult to read, but easy on the ear.What other book might you compare Vietnam to and why?
Any WWII books by Martin Gilbert, or Stalingrad, Stanley BeevorHave you listened to any of Edward Holland’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
NoWas this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Good grief no, way too long. Best ingested in small doses.Any additional comments?
Absolutely the definitive history of Vietnam, up to 1975ishDefinitive
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If you could sum up Vietnam in three words, what would they be?
Lacking military aspectWhat did you like best about this story?
Not too much - but it was perhaps my own faultAny additional comments?
I really wanted to hear how the political and military machinations intertwined but I discovered too late that this is purely a political history - the military events are referred to only when they impinged on the political. It is a truly extensive political history of Vietnam so for those interested in that aspect it is excellent. I take full responsibility for not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped - it just isn't what i thought it would be and so should have investigated it more thoroughly before buying it.Not exactly what I expected
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At one point the book quotes an American in 1990s Vietnam saying, "Vietnam is a country, not a war." Despite its title this book is a history of the US war in Vietnam, not the country itself. The author takes care to switch back and forth between different perspectives - the US government, the North Vietnamese leadership, US soldiers, and occasionally the Chinese and Soviet governments. But these are detours; the focus generally stays on the US presidents and their top advisors from start to finish. Not having been alive at the time, I felt that I learned quite a bit about the reasons for the US actions from start to finish. By claiming to stick to the perceptions of the White House, the author often avoids making his own interpretations. For example, he describes at least four occasions over several years when Robert McNamara visited Vietnam and each time reported that the US military was making no progress despite the enormous amount of money spent, ordinance expended, and Vietnamese killed. This is basically the central message of the book, but Karnow presents it not as his own view, but as that of successive White House cabinets. It's an approach with advantages and disadvantages, but it works overall.
I was irritated at first at how much time the "updated" first chapter of the book spends on discussing the first Gulf War - which the US had carried out just before this revised edition was published. Now I appreciate the out of date introduction: it shows that even the revised edition came out before the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, so that the listener can be sure that the author didn't alter this Vietnam book to create parallels with the latest conflicts. Listening to this, I found the parallels going much further then I'd imagined possible.
Excellent Narrator
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Know History - or be doomed to repeat it
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Vietnam Revisited
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To all of my brothers and sisters in arms who served in VietNam, I salute you.
A weak note to the 58,220 Americans KIA
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An abundance of relavent history
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Expected More
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