"When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, “Iraq is George
Bush’s Vietnam,” everyone understood. The Vietnam War has
become the touchstone for U.S. military misadventures—a war lost on
the home front although never truly lost on the battlefront. During the
pivotal decade of 1962 to 1972, U.S. involvement rose from a few hundred
advisers to a fighting force of more than one million. This same period saw
the greatest schism in American society since the Civil War, a generational
divide pitting mothers and fathers against sons and daughters who protested
the country’s ever-growing military involvement in Vietnam.
Meanwhile, well-intentioned decisions in Washington became operational
orders with tragic outcomes in the rice paddies, jungles, and villages of
Southeast Asia. Through beautifully rendered artwork,The Vietnam War: A
Graphic History depicts the course of the war from its initial expansion in
the early 1960s through the evacuation of Saigon in 1975, and what
transpired at home, from the antiwar movement and the assassinations of
Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to the Watergate break-in and the
resignation of a president." -fra omslaget