| Description |
128 pages : illustrations, (some color), map ; 26 cm |
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New Items
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| Contents |
Communism -- Origins of the Vietnam War, part one: French colonialism in Vietnam -- Origins of the Vietnam War, part two: Dividing of Vietnam -- Map of Vietnam -- Origins of the Vietnam War, part three: Reasons for American intervention -- Viet Cong -- Advisors' war/MAAG -- Tonkin Gulf incidents -- Operation Starlite -- Modern cavalry: Air mobile war -- Ia Drang campaign -- Map of Ia Drang campaign, October 1965 -- America's allies in Vietnam -- Ho chi Minh Trail and the DMZ -- Rolling Thunder bombing campaign -- Iron triangle -- Riverine war -- Unconventional war: Green Berets, Force Recon, SEALs, and Air Commandos -- Company commanders' war -- Generals of the War: Giap and Westmoreland -- Yankee station -- Villagers' war -- Corpsmen's war -- Agent orange -- Journalist s's war -- Seige of Khe Sanh -- Tet offensive -- Politics of war -- Atrocities: Hue and My Lai -- "We gotta get outta this place: - Music of the Vietnam War -- Antiwar movement -- Draft -- Prisoners of war -- Hamburger Hill -- Secret War: Laos and Cambodia -- Vietnamization -- Operation Lam Son -- Map of U.S. military regions of South Vietnam -- Easter offensive -- Linebacker operations -- Paris peace talks -- "Pentagon papers" and Watergate -- Fall of Saigon -- Missing in action (MIA) Vietnam Veterans Memorial: The wall -- Vietnam after the war -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Vietnam War web sites -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Suggested level: Secondary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-123) and index |
| Notes |
1210 Lexile |
| Audience |
Young Adult |
| Notes |
Accelerated Reader 9.7 |
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Reading Counts! 7.6 |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Juvenile literature.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Juvenile literature
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
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| LC no. |
2004015468 |
| ISBN |
0689862318 |
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