Witness to War: Vietnam

by Maurice Isserman

This is the story of the Vietnam War, told in the words of the people who lived it - soldiers and civilians, officers and political leaders, reporters and diplomats. From the anticolonial uprisings in the 1940s to the crushing defeat of South Vietnam in 1975, Witness to Vietnam provides the complete story of America's most controversial war with perspective that goes beyond the battlefields - to offer new insight into events that shaped the course of American history.
Witness to Vietnam includes a wide selection of personal accounts and from discussions of strategy to questions of morality; from public documents to the private opinions and recollections of government leaders; from front-page newspaper stories to front-line soldier accounts. Revealing the human side of the war through actual narratives, it is an indispensable guide to the history of the Vietnam era.
Maurice Isserman is a professor of history at Hamilton College.

Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1995

About the author

Maurice Isserman received a B.A. in history from Reed College in 1973 and his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Rochester in 1979. He is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.