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Tucker's update of the 1999 edition claims to be "the most comprehensive reference work on the war to appear in print." The first three volumes feature 1200-plus alphabetically arranged, plainly written entries on the people, events, places, and battles of the conflict, as well as black-and-white maps and photographs. Some entries are as short as a few paragraphs, while others continue for several pages. The fourth volume, "Documents," contains 225 primary sources or excerpts from them, such as a letter from Ho Chi Minh to Secretary...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 9 Up—Marvelously comprehensive, this update has expanded to include a third volume of entries and improved on the classic first edition (1999). Straightforward, illuminating entries cover everything from famous battles (the Tet offensive) to acts of high school protest (Tinker v. Des Moines), and from movements (Black Panthers. the Civil Rights movement) to issues (chemical warfare, the Paris Peace Accords, torture, the Pueblo incident, etc.). The importance of the names that have ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More