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Life the Vietnam Wars Author: The Editors of Life

ISBN: 9781618931016 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 176 Published: 24 June 2014 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 31.7 x 25.1 x 2.0 Description: LIFE was one of the premiere sources of news about the Vietnam War and its coverage was revolutionary; Larry Burrows was the first photographer to document a war primarily in color, because LIFE had figured out, with the new printing methods of the 1960s, how to accommodate more color pages. The pictures are as arresting today as they were in their time. However, LIFE not only reinvented war coverage but we traveled as America did: from pro-war to "One Week's Dead." LIFE in fact led the way.

Many wars have served to protect America or America's interests. Even the Civil War was about maintaining the Union. Vietnam was the first war since the Revolution that changed America profoundly-sociologically, and in how we thought about war, aggression and the feeling that America was infallible. Journalists, college students and eventually soldiers themselves started to question such things as "America's always right" and "America has never lost a war." The war at home, which LIFE covered just as vividly as the war in Southeast Asia, was waged on the campuses and at the conventions. All of that photography will be here in this 50th anniversary commemor...

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