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Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam Revised Edition
Author(s): Christian G. Appy (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 1993
- Edition: Revised
- Language: English
- Print length: 377 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807820571
- ISBN-13: 9780807820575
Book Description
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.
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About the Author
Christian G. Appy is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He is author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides.
