The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War
The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War
$28.95
- Paperback
408 pages
- Release Date
1 December 1988
Summary
Jonathan Schell’s extraordinary on-the-scene writing about Vietnam has stood the test of time in our continuing attempt to understand how and why the United States went to war-and how and why it lost. In “The Village of Ben Suc” written “with skill that many a veteran reporter will envy” (New York Times), Schell recounts how American forces destroyed a village caught up in the largest American military operation of the war-he flies into Ben Suc in the attack helicopters, follows the assault o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780394755502 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0394755502 |
| Author: | Jonathan Schell |
| Publisher: | Pantheon Books |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 1988 |
| Weight: | 562g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 141mm x 217mm |
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Critics Review
“If, years from now, Americans are willing to read any books about the war being so quickly forgotten, let them be The Village of Ben Suc and The Military Half, by Jonathan Schell. They tell everything.” –Gloria Emerson “[Written] with a skill that many a veteran war reporter will envy.” –The New York Times
About The Author
Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell teaches at Wesleyan University and the New School University. A Fellow at the Nation Institute and co-founder of a recently formed citizen ’s initiative to negotiate the abolition of nuclear weapons, he is the author of nine books including Fate of the Earth, which was published in twenty countries.
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