Dwight Zimmerman and Wayne Vansant’s book: The Vietnam War: A Graphic History delivers an amusing account and perception on the Vietnam War in North and South Vietnam, as well as an account in America at this period in time. This book is an exceptional source to teachers, students, and war enthusiasts. The book answers the question of what it remained like to be a citizen living in America at the time of the Vietnam War and what it was like to be a shoulder fighting in this horrid war.
Starting with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office in March of 1964 to ending with the “The Wall” and Gerald R. Ford being President, the authors show the meticulous progression of The Vietnam War and people’s views of the war. The reader is taken on a graphic …show more content…
The book divided into five man parts begins with a prologue at the beginning and ends with the postscript and acknowledgments. Opening with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office, the book advances through the Tonkin Gulf situation, Operation Rolling Thunder, Operation Starlite, The Draft, Operation Van Buren, Operation Mashier, multiple battles, Martin Luther King Jr, student protests, Richard Nixon, Watergate, and finally to the end of the war and to the building of “The Wall.” The postscript concludes with a listening and description of major topics that went on during the Vietnam War such as the Domino Theory, Antiwar Movement, The Civil Rights Movement, and the War Powers Act. While it is near to intolerable to explore all books, the suggested readings page provides sources for locating more information on The Vietnam …show more content…
Each chapter is filled with many drawings, as it is a comic book, and the dialogue is taken from actual statements and accounts made by respective individuals. These first hand statements deliver unfathomable insight into what, in some history books, is just an entry of information. When the book uses quotes and statements from respective individuals and there are pictures to go along with the text, it makes the text almost come alive as though these people were talking in real time. The authors supply a comprehensive analysis of numerous phases of the Vietnam War often glossed over in Vietnam War books and history books. The books use of black and white pictures and vivid accounts of what happened helps to make the book come to life as something more significant than events on a timeline. The book being in black and white also sheds some light on how this event is a stained and not colorful event in American
Starting with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office in March of 1964 to ending with the “The Wall” and Gerald R. Ford being President, the authors show the meticulous progression of The Vietnam War and people’s views of the war. The reader is taken on a graphic …show more content…
The book divided into five man parts begins with a prologue at the beginning and ends with the postscript and acknowledgments. Opening with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office, the book advances through the Tonkin Gulf situation, Operation Rolling Thunder, Operation Starlite, The Draft, Operation Van Buren, Operation Mashier, multiple battles, Martin Luther King Jr, student protests, Richard Nixon, Watergate, and finally to the end of the war and to the building of “The Wall.” The postscript concludes with a listening and description of major topics that went on during the Vietnam War such as the Domino Theory, Antiwar Movement, The Civil Rights Movement, and the War Powers Act. While it is near to intolerable to explore all books, the suggested readings page provides sources for locating more information on The Vietnam …show more content…
Each chapter is filled with many drawings, as it is a comic book, and the dialogue is taken from actual statements and accounts made by respective individuals. These first hand statements deliver unfathomable insight into what, in some history books, is just an entry of information. When the book uses quotes and statements from respective individuals and there are pictures to go along with the text, it makes the text almost come alive as though these people were talking in real time. The authors supply a comprehensive analysis of numerous phases of the Vietnam War often glossed over in Vietnam War books and history books. The books use of black and white pictures and vivid accounts of what happened helps to make the book come to life as something more significant than events on a timeline. The book being in black and white also sheds some light on how this event is a stained and not colorful event in American