Overview

This work offers an introduction to the best-known antiwar movement in United States history, written by veterans of the Vietnam War and participants in the movement. It examines how the activities of the movement affected the lives of most Americans.

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9780815625599

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"The book, a compilation of 14 essays, includes longtime VVA member Bill Crandell's history of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Vietnam veteran and Texas A&M history professor Terry H. Anderson's look at the way the brass responded to antiwar GIs. The GIs chapters provide a mass of information about the desperate GI movement during the war.-- ""The Veteran"" The essays contain much useful information, including some new material based on oral histories.-- ""Publishers Weekly"""

The book, a compilation of 14 essays, includes longtime VVA member Bill Crandell's history of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Vietnam veteran and Texas A&M history professor Terry H. Anderson's look at the way the brass responded to antiwar GIs. The GIs chapters provide a mass of information about the desperate GI movement during the war.-- ""The Veteran"" The essays contain much useful information, including some new material based on oral histories.-- ""Publishers Weekly""

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Melvin Small is the author Resort to Arms, Was War Necessary?, and Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves. William D. Hoover has published articles on Japanese diplomacy and entrepreneurship and served as the Asian editor for the Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders. Small and Hoover co-organized the Vietnam Antiwar Movement Conference in honor of peace historian Charles DeBenedetti, who is the inspiration for this book.

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