Live from Saigon. From: Commonweal | Date: May 23, 2003| Author: Hillenbrand, Barry | COPYRIGHT 2003 Commonweal Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Patriots

The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides

Christian G. Appy

Viking, $29.95, 491 pp.

Christian G. Appy clearly has a talent for finding interesting people and getting them talking. For this comprehensive oral history of the Vietnam War he collected the recollections of some 135 people in the United States and Vietnam who were swept up in the whirlwind of the war. The charm of this book is that Appy did not limit his interviewing ...

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