The long reckoning : a story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam /

The long reckoning : a story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam /

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Author / Creator:	Black, George, 1949- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. ©2023
Description:	x, 478 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Agent Orange -- Health aspects -- Vietnam. Agent Orange -- Environmental aspects -- Vietnam. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Health aspects -- Vietnam. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Environmental aspects -- Vietnam. War victims -- Services for -- Vietnam. Unexploded ordnance -- Vietnam. Land mines -- Vietnam. United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam. Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13141901

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Varying Form of Title:	Story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam
ISBN:	9780593534106 0593534107 9780593534113
Notes:	"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"-- The American war in Vietnam left many long-lasting scars that have not yet been sufficiently examined. The worst of them were inflicted in a tiny area bounded by the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in neighboring Laos. That small region saw the most intense aerial bombing campaign in history, the massive use of toxic chemicals, and the heaviest casualties on both sides. Black recounts how a small group of veterans, scientists, Quaker-inspired pacifists, and their Vietnamese partner used their moral authority, scientific and political ingenuity, and sheer persistence to attempt to heal the horrors that were left in the wake of the military engagement in Southeast Asia. Their story is one of reconciliation and personal redemption, embedded in a vivid portrait of Vietnam today: one-time mortal enemies, in the endless shape-shifting of geopolitics, have been transformed into close allies and partners. -- adapted from jacket
Other form:	Online version: Black, George, 1949- Long reckoning First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 9780593534113
Standard no.:	40031693853

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