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A review by stenaros
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge
5.0
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This would make a great companion book for Steve Sheinkin's Most Dangerous. While Sheinkin dives into the details behind why we were in the war, Partridge uses a series of first-person interviews to explain the Vietnam experience. The interview subjects are diverse and from them we take away a better understanding of what it must have been like to experience the war, either as a soldier, a nurse, a Vietnamese refugee and others.
The interviews are interspersed with background information about the policies and people who kept the war going, and attempted to end it. Information is relayed in an age-appropriate way and there are good photographs to supplement the story. This is an excellent example of quality nonfiction.
This would make a great companion book for Steve Sheinkin's Most Dangerous. While Sheinkin dives into the details behind why we were in the war, Partridge uses a series of first-person interviews to explain the Vietnam experience. The interview subjects are diverse and from them we take away a better understanding of what it must have been like to experience the war, either as a soldier, a nurse, a Vietnamese refugee and others.
The interviews are interspersed with background information about the policies and people who kept the war going, and attempted to end it. Information is relayed in an age-appropriate way and there are good photographs to supplement the story. This is an excellent example of quality nonfiction.