Portrait of a Tragedy: America and the Vietnam War

by James A. Warren

A discussion of the causes, events, and aftermath of the longest and most controversial conflict in American history. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688074545
• ISBN13: 9780688074548
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

PORTRAIT OF A TRAGEDY America and the Vietnam War

Our town librarian asked me to take this book home and rate it. As a Vietnam vet, she was curious for my review and reaction. I must say the book is presented in a dispassionate way, but chronicles the movement of our involvement in this far Asian country over the years, as young people need to know about. I was a helicopter pilot in the Mekong Delta, stationed at Vinh Long with the 175th Outlaws, one of the most affectionate helicopter units in-country. I am very familiar with many of the episodes and locales featured in the book. I would recommend PORTRAIT OF A TRAGEDY as an historical overview of the conflict, but it lacks the passion of the years describing all that went on--there and in the USA. It is well constructed, and for those people who cannot figure why we ever got involved in this entanglement, it could present the situation in a rational dialogue for them to think about. My book centers on the experiences of flying helicopters and the camaraderie experienced by the Army aviators in this war.