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Bezig met laden... 10,000 days of thunder : a history of the Vietnam War (editie 2005)door Philip Caputo
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 959.7 Philip Caputo is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. This book proceeds in vignette fashion chronologically in two-page spreads, filled with pictures. Each spread picks a critical aspect of the war and describes it with words on one side, pictures on the other, and a “Quick Facts” section. Students are led through the historical French roots of the war, to the Gulf of Tonkin incidents, along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, to the Tet Offensive, My Lai, Hamburger Hill, and up to and past the fall of Saigon. A bit choppy and certainly not a comprehensive look at the Viet Nam War, 10,000 Days of Thunder has Caputo’s well-honed style and elegance and is an excellent over view of this very long and very unpopular war. Recommended for both middle school and high school libraries. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Philip Caputo writes about our country's most controversial war -- the Vietnam War -- for young readers. From the first stirrings of unrest in Vietnam under French colonial rule, to American intervention, to the battle at Hamburger Hill, to the Tet Offensive, to the fall of Saigon, 10,000 Days of Thunder explores the war that changed the lives of a generation of Americans and that still reverberates with us today. Included within 10,000 Days of Thunder are personal anecdotes from soldiers and civilians, as well as profiles and accounts of the actions of many historical luminaries, both American and Vietnamese, involved in the Vietnam War, such as Richard M. Nixon, General William C. Westmoreland, Ho Chi Minh, Joe Galloway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, and General Vo Nguyen Giap. Caputo also explores the rise of Communism in Vietnam, the roles that women played on the battlefield, the antiwar movement at home, the participation of Vietnamese villagers in the war, as well as the far-reaching impact of the war's aftermath. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)959.704History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia Vietnam 1949-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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