Beautiful Feet – America And Vietnam (Albert Marrin)

Beautiful Feet – America And Vietnam (Albert Marrin)

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America And Vietnam explores the complex history and impact of the Vietnam War. This book covers key events, political decisions, and the experiences of soldiers and civilians during the conflict. Suitable for middle and high school students, America And Vietnam promotes historical literacy, critical thinking, and an understanding of the war’s lasting effects. Ideal for homeschool settings, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced account of the Vietnam War, encouraging students to explore and analyze a significant period in American history.

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Fought in a small Asian country unfamiliar to most Americans at the time, the Vietnam War became a cause that divided the nation and defined a counter-culture. The first televised war, newscasters became a force creating the greatest anti-war movement in history, while American boys suffered and died in jungles and rice paddies against guerilla soldiers they rarely saw face to face. 

The story of the Vietnam War is a complicated one, and one that I still find a little confusing myself. Author Albert Marrin must have found it equally so. As he writes in his introduction, although he lived during the war and had actively followed the news at the time, he ended up spending months – even years – researching for this book, reading hundreds of books, articles, and personal accounts of the war, as well as interviewing men who had served during the war. And I believe that the results of so much research were well worth the effort and go a long way in helping readers better understand the conflict itself, as well as the bigger picture. To help readers get a feel for the country and its people, Marrin starts his story back at the early settlement of Vietnam, and the long-continuing struggle of the Vietnamese to remain independent from their Northern neighbor, China. He continues his story with the French colonization of the area, the spread of Communism into Vietnam, the “splitting” of Vietnam into two general parts, and all the developments in between and beyond that attributed to the buildup of the war. Marrin’s writing is absorbing, full of details that make it seem as if readers were there, and is almost hard to put down. Occasional maps and black-and-white photos add visual interest as well. Overall, a thorough and well-written account of what is often thought of as a somewhat “uncomfortable” 

 

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