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The Vietnam War

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The Vietnam War

By: Tom King
Narrated by: Jon Bolitho-Jones
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The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.

The war began in 1954 (though conflict in the region stretched back to the mid-1940s), after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two global superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union.

More than three million people (including 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War; more than half were Vietnamese civilians. By 1969, at the peak of US involvement in the war, more than 500,000 US military personnel were involved in the Vietnam conflict.

Growing opposition to the war in the United States led to bitter divisions among Americans, both before and after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of US forces in 1973. In 1975, communist forces seized control of Saigon, ending the Vietnam War, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.

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I picked this audiobook up as a impulse buy based on it being written by Tom King, a comics writer who’s work I’ve enjoyed. I was hoping that since he is known for engaging narratives, that this would be a Vietnam history told in an entertaining style - as entertaining as a story of war and mass casualties can be in any case. Also, the relative brevity of the book was appealing to me as well.

I actually found this to be a very professionally told history, but it reads like a textbook. To be clear, this is not a bad thing, though it happened to not be what I was looking for, I can still appreciate it for its merits.

This is a textbook style history of the Vietnam was that would be a great means of obtaining a lot of information in a short period time. This is not a book made to entertain, but to inform. If that is what you are looking for, you can’t go wrong with this book.

Not a book made to entertain, but rather to inform.

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