PATRIOTS has been garnering praise for its insightful accounting of the Vietnam War from all who were affected by it.  Here is what people are saying . . .

“Of all of the works on the Vietnam War – fiction and nonfiction – this is the big one.”

-- Studs Terkel

"No one has ever attempted what Christian Appy has achieved in Patriots.  The subtitle is accurate: not both sides, note, but all sides – South, North, military, civilian, protester, soldier, commander, observer, journalist, photographer, poet, novelist, exile, refugee, survivor – even the dead, remembered by the living.  Brilliant and painful, this is the most vivid account of the Vietnam War I have ever read.  If I were asked to recommend a single book on the war it would be this one."

-- Marilyn Young, professor of history, New York University, author of The Vietnam Wars

“I thought the war in Vietnam would never end, and after it did I never wanted to hear or think of it again, until someone I trust told me to read this book.  Christian Appy talked to 135 people who have never stopped trying to find words for the war, and there is no end to what you can learn from this book, if you will open it.”

-- Thomas Powers, author of Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al Qaeda

“As a Vietnam combat veteran who participated in most of the major historical battles of 1968, I’m understandably ambivalent about reading Vietnam books, fiction and non-fiction. Christian G. Appy’s Patriots is a different and even-handed approach to a still controversial and divisive subject. The overall effect of listening to different voices on the same sore subject is eye-opening and revealing. Each voice sounds fresh, as if the storyteller had been waiting for decades -- and most of them had -- to tell their story, to relieve themselves of something that had been bothering them for along time, or just to set the record straight in their own minds. At the end, I for one felt more than satisfied because I had reached a greater understanding of the event that changed my life and the life of the nation.”

-- Nelson DeMille, author of The General’s Daughter, Word of Honor, and Plum Island, (Book of the Month Club News)

"In the vast literature on Vietnam, Christian Appy's Patriots is unique. Breathtaking in its scope, this is a fascinating and moving oral history. It's hard to believe one man did it all. The voices come from Vietnam and America, from men and women, from the Establishment and the protest movement, from soldiers and journalists -- moving personal stories which take us back to that tumultuous time, but also make us think hard about today.”

-- Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States

“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.”

-- Washington Post Book World

“With the barest of introductions, Appy allows each of his chosen voices to offer an unvarnished recollection – painful, conflicted, occasionally beautiful – of an extraordinary time.”

-- New York Times Book Review

“From Cambodia to Kent State, the My Lai massacre to Norman Morrison’s self-immolation outside the Pentagon, the Tet offensive to Bobbie the Weathergirl, PATRIOTS presents the lessons of the Vietnam War through chilling recollections, inspiring stories of bravery and heart-wrenching tales of barbarism. The stories it tells range from anecdotal to profound and this book will become an indispensable part of Vietnam War History."

-- Rocky Mountain News

“Christian G. Appy has put together a remarkable chronicle of the Vietnam War years … If you were alive during the Vietnam War era, you’ve got to read this book. If you weren’t, you’ve really got to read this book.”

-- The San Diego Tribune

“The best oral historians take their raw material and shape it into one readable seamless, enlightening story. That is certainly the case with Christian G. Appy’s massive (549 pages) Patriots, which also lives up to its subtitle by covering 'all sides' of the Vietnam War.”

-- The Dallas Morning News

“An excellent addition to the literature of the Vietnam War, instructive and moving.”

-- Kirkus Reviews (starred)