Chicago Tribune: “Multiple Perspectives Yield a Remarkable Look at the Vietnam War”
Warren Goldstein
January 25, 2004
“Christian Appy's "Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides" should do for the
Vietnam War what Studs Terkel's "The Good War" did for World War II: remove it from the
realm of mythology and ground it in the vivid memories of people who lived and fought in it
and against it, who ran it and suffered from it.”
To read the entire review go to:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-0401230359jan25,1,7610202.story
Washington Post: “How It Was”
Fredrik Logevall
June 1, 2003
“Christian G. Appy does not tell us when precisely he hit upon the idea of producing a
full-fledged oral history of the Vietnam War, but an inspired moment it was.
Five years in the making and based on hundreds of interviews with Americans and
Vietnamese, Patriots is a gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is
timely.”
To read the entire review go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/admin/emailfriend?contentId=A56042-2003May29&sent=no&referrer=emailarticle
Rocky Mountain News: “Vietnam War Voices Tell All Sides”
Jay Pawlowski, Special To The News
June 20, 2003
“How does one tell the story of the Vietnam War? How can any amount of text put together
the immense complexities, intricacies and atrocities of this dark period in American history
and say, this is it - this is the Vietnam War? That may be an impossible task, but Christian
G. Appy's latest book, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides, does better
than anyone can expect in its attempt to.”
To read the entire review, go to: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/books/article/0,1299,DRMN_63_2049744,00.html
Intervention Magazine
Terry Cochran
July 10, 2003
“It was a time of American GI’s and antiwar protesters, Saigon troops and Viet Cong
sympathizers, Communist leaders and Hanoi peasants. All are represented in Christian Appy’s
marvelous book Patriots. Billed as a “comprehensive oral history of the Vietnam War,” it is
that and so much more. Combining 135 interviews with his own commentary, Appy illuminates
a dark era in U.S. history. He also raises issues for us to consider in light of the current
deployment of American troops around the world.”
To read the entire review, go to:
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=443
