The Vietnam War: The Causes, Events, and Legacy

by Peter Chrisp

The Vietnam War is one of America's highest profile conflicts. This book is packed with facts, photographs, illustrations, and maps and covers all aspects of the conflict. It provides an ideal guide for a balanced view on the war that defined a generation. Ages 11 and up.

48 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2014

About the author

Peter Chrisp is a British children's author of books on history. With over sixty books published, his various works include Blitzkrieg!, Dorling Kindersly's Ancient Egypt Revealed and Ancient Rome Revealed, The Spanish Conquests of the New World, and many more.

He first began writing history after working on the Mass-Observation archive at the University of Sussex. He has also worked as a writer on the online project "Icons of England".

Aside from his publications in literature, he is also an artist, who has exhibited collections of his cartoons and hand-drawn postcards during Brighton Festival. He is an inveterate theatre- and concert-goer, and during the Edinburgh Festival regularly views three shows a day. He collects original art works, and is a fan of Eric Ravilious and Jonny Hannah among others.

At present, Mr. Chrisp acts as one of Brighton's cultural attaches to Lewes. This is believed to be largely an honorary position. He is also being talked of as a possible future Mayor of Brighton.

Reviews

[Alex Barnhart · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book The Vietnam War by Peter Chrisp is a NonFiction book.The publication date on this book was 2014. My opinion of this book was that it was a book just full of information that I liked. The main characters/groups were North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Viet Cong, and the United States of America. The main conflict was the North wanted a communist Country but the South didn`t want a communist Country. The setting of this book took place at Vietnam. The North want a communist Country and The South wanted a democracy, so the North and South went to War and the U.S. joined the falling South to help them with the War. In the Section Domino Theory it states "Vietnam can`t fall to communism .Southeast Asia is a line of dominoes, meant that if one fell, it would knock over it`s neighbors." Which is why America Join South Vietnam. If South Vietnam fell, their neighbors would also fall. I recommend this book for everyone it`s not a very challenging book and it has a lot of information about the Vietnam War.

[AJ Dalman · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book discussed the main topics of the Vietnam war. The book was in a very neat, chronological order.The book was very predicting and you knew what was going to happen next. The book will show you the basic run down of what happened in Vietnam.

My thoughts on the book are that it is very good at showing what happened to a young reader. The book

[Taylor Guffey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This nonfiction picture book would pair well with Inside Out & Back Again to be used in a unit on the Vietnam War. I think this was a comprehensive overview of the Vietnam War--as much as could be included in a picture book. It would be a great text to use to build background knowledge on this topic, which is what I was using it for.