The real war : the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay / by Jonathan Schell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schell, Jonathan, 1943-2014.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Destruction and pillage.

Destruction and pillage.

Schell, Jonathan, 1943-2014.

Schell, Jonathan.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- American.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

398 pages : maps ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Da Capo Press edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Da Capo Press, 2000.

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. The Real War consists of two classic accounts of American military operations in Vietnam -- "The Village of Ben Suc" and "The Military Half" -- and Schell's subsequent look back at the war. It is without equal in re-creating the sights, the sounds, and the feel of Vietnam and is written "with a skill that many a veteran war reporter will envy" (The New York Times).

Contents:

I The Real War 1

II The Village of Ben Suc 57

III The Military Half 189.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1987.

ISBN:

0306809265

OCLC:

42968025