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10,000 Days of Thunder

Name: 10,000 Days of Thunder
ISBN: 9781442444546

A History of the Vietnam War

Philip Caputo,

128 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

10,000 Days of Thunder

A History of the Vietnam War

Philip Caputo,

About this book

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.
Caputo's dynamic narrative is highlighted by stunning photographs and key campaign and battlefield maps, making 10, 000 Days of Thunder THE consummate book on the Vietnam War for kids.

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Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Year

2011

Print ISBN

9780689862311

eBook ISBN

9781442444546

Cover
Back Cover
Description
Author Bio
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Communism
Chapter 2: Origins of the Vietnam War, Part One: French Colonialism in Vietnam
Chapter 3: Origins of the Vietnam War, Part Two: The Dividing of Vietnam
Chapter 4: Map of Vietnam
Chapter 5: Origins of the Vietnam War, Part Three: The Reasons for American Intervention
Chapter 6: Viet Cong
Chapter 7: The Advisors’ War/MAAG
Chapter 8: The Tonkin Gulf Incidents
Chapter 9: Operation Starlite
Chapter 10: The Modern Cavalry: The Airmobile War
Chapter 11: The Ia Drang Campaign
Chapter 12: Map of Ia Drang Campaign, October 1965
Chapter 13: America’s Allies in Vietnam
Chapter 14: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the DMZ
Chapter 15: The Rolling Thunder Bombing Campaign
Chapter 16: The Iron Triangle
Chapter 17: The Riverine War
Chapter 18: The Unconventional War: Green Berets, Force Recon, SEALs, and Air Commandos
Chapter 19: The Company Commanders’ War
Chapter 20: Generals of the War: Giap and Westmoreland
Chapter 21: Yankee Station
Chapter 22: The Villagers’ War
Chapter 23: The Corpsmen’s War
Chapter 24: The Nurses’ War
Chapter 25: The Tunnel War
Chapter 26: Agent Orange
Chapter 27: The Journalists’ War
Chapter 28: The Siege of Khe Sanh
Chapter 29: The Tet Offensive
Chapter 30: The Politics of War
Chapter 31: Atrocities: Hue and My Lai
Chapter 32: “We Gotta Get Outta This Place”—Music of the Vietnam War
Chapter 33: The Antiwar Movement
Chapter 34: The Draft
Chapter 35: Prisoners of War
Chapter 36: Hamburger Hill
Chapter 37: The Secret War: Laos and Cambodia
Chapter 38: Vietnamization
Chapter 39: Operation Lam Son
Chapter 40: Map of U.S. Military Regions of South Vietnam
Chapter 41: The Easter Offensive
Chapter 42: The Linebacker Operations
Chapter 43: The Paris Peace Talks
Chapter 44: The “Pentagon Papers” and Watergate
Chapter 45: The Fall of Saigon
Chapter 46: Missing in Action(MIA)
Chapter 47: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: The Wall
Chapter 48: Vietnam After the War
Chapter 49: Glossary
Chapter 50: Bibliography
Chapter 51: Vietnam War Web Sites
Index

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