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The Vietnam War? / Philip Steele.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Did anything good come out ofPublication details: London , Wayland, an imprint of Hachette Children's Group, 2015. Description: 48 pages; illustrations, maps, portraits; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780750295901
  • 0750295902
Other title:
  • Did anything good come out of... the Vietnam War?
  • Did anything good come out of the Vietnam War?
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.704/3 23
Contents:
Part I. What was the Vietnam War? -- Hell at Khe Sanh -- The causes -- The Second Indochina War -- War like wildfire -- End of the road -- Part II. What came out of the Vietnam War? -- Power but no glory -- Dominoes -- Stalemate at the UN -- How the worlds changed -- Dollars for war -- Social change -- Women at war -- Saving lives -- New technologies -- Fire from Hell -- Clearing the jungle -- Media and the arts -- Art of the war -- Writers, facts and fiction -- Part III. So did anything good come out of the Vietnam War? -- The big questions -- Legacy of the Vietnam War.
Summary: This book considers the Vietnam (or Second Indochina) War, 1955-1975, which may have killed as many as 3 million troops and civilians. It divided America, it aroused huge opposition around the world and it divided generations. Why was it fought and what were the outcomes? Did it have any unexpected consequences? Did any good at all come out of it?
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Junior Non-Fiction Junior Non-Fiction Waimate Junior Non-Fiction Children &Young Adults Section 959.7043 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A00744675

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. What was the Vietnam War? -- Hell at Khe Sanh -- The causes -- The Second Indochina War -- War like wildfire -- End of the road -- Part II. What came out of the Vietnam War? -- Power but no glory -- Dominoes -- Stalemate at the UN -- How the worlds changed -- Dollars for war -- Social change -- Women at war -- Saving lives -- New technologies -- Fire from Hell -- Clearing the jungle -- Media and the arts -- Art of the war -- Writers, facts and fiction -- Part III. So did anything good come out of the Vietnam War? -- The big questions -- Legacy of the Vietnam War.

This book considers the Vietnam (or Second Indochina) War, 1955-1975, which may have killed as many as 3 million troops and civilians. It divided America, it aroused huge opposition around the world and it divided generations. Why was it fought and what were the outcomes? Did it have any unexpected consequences? Did any good at all come out of it?

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