![]() ![]() Isaacs, on the other hand, concentrates on the period between the withdrawal of U.S. ![]() Karnow's book, intended as a companion volume to the 13-part PBS television documentary on Vietnam premiering this week, takes the long view, beginning with the French involvement in the 18th century and continuing through both the First Indochina War between France and the Vietminh and the Second Indochina War between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. This objectivity continues with the most recent books on Vietnam- former Time-Life and Washington Post war correspondent Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History, and former Baltimore Sun war correspondent Arnold Isaac's Without Honor. Not caught up in the violent emotions that swept American college campuses and the intellectual community, tempered by their first-hand experiences and observations, journalists furnished some of the least biased and most objective works on that tragic period. ONE OF THE ANOMALIES of Vietnam literature is that during the war the most sensational and overwrought "yellow journalism" came from academia rather than the media. Now on the faculty of the Army War Colleg October 2, 1983 ![]()
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