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Article: Home to War: a History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement.(Book Review)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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HOME TO WAR: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement. Gerald Nicosia, Crown Publishers, NY, 2001, 689 pages, $35.00.
Gerald Nicosia, a former draft resister who felt he had "a moral duty not to fight in Vietnam," tells how a handful of disillusioned veterans formed the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). The book addresses an area in the war's history that has received little attention. Over a 10-year period, Nicosia interviewed 600 men who had served in the Vietnam war and who became active in the antiwar movement or worked as veterans' advocates.
Although Nicosia is not a historian, one would expect that he would handle the topic in a fair, ...