Author:Christian G. Appy
In Vietnam, Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only once in a generation. The vivid accounts of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975.
The testimony in this book, sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, allows us to see and feel what this war meant to people on all sides - Americans and Vietnamese, generals and guerillas, policy makers and protesters, CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people.
A remarkable, eye-opening and essential read for anyone with even a passing interest in one of the 20th century's defining conflicts.
Defintive, profound and utterly relevant
—— Daily TelegraphThe most fascinating collection of memories - some of them extremely painful - that I have read in a long time
—— Scottish Sunday HeraldNo conventional account could begin to evoke the raw reality of Vietnam as vividly as this ambitious oral history
—— ScotsmanAn exemplary oral history ... profoundly moving as well as informative
—— BBC HistoryPart history lesson, part cultural essay, The Bridge's slender size does not diminish it's riches
—— Viola Fort , GuardianMason brings together a wealth of inspiring stories of workers' struggles of the past with accounts of workers' fights today
—— Socialist ReviewIt has taken a mere 2,700 years for archaeology to reveal Homer as a truly talented historian, not just a peddler of second hand myths. Contrary to age-old academic prejudice, finds since 1988 have confirmed that the Trojan War happened much as Homer - the Iron Age writer with an inspired grasp of Bronze Age culture - related it. Homer's heroes remain mythical, but so much else is spot-on that Barry Strauss extends the benefit of the doubt by re-telling The Iliad in his own chattily lyrical style as if Achilles & Co were as real as the other proven evidence. Cracking book ...
—— The Daily TelegraphIn this gripping reconstruction [Strauss] deploys an impressive array of archaeological, historical and linguistic evidence...
—— Mail on SundayA gripping account
—— Adam Forrest , The HeraldDeGroot tells the story of the American lunar mission with verve and elegance
—— Richard Aldous , Irish TimesFascinating, gossipy and occasionally hilarious
—— Jeffrey Taylor , Express
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