* Appy, Christian G. Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Viking. Jun. 2003. c.491p. index. ISBN 0-670-03214-X. $29.95. HIST

The Vietnam War has been portrayed through many oral histories over the last three decades, but this superb volume is quite possibly the best in a crowded field. Most oral histories draw primarily on the stories of servicemen and -women, but as the subtitle claims, this compilation presents 135 one- to five-page interviews with American and Vietnamese veterans and conversations with journalists, antiwar protestors, doctors, nurses, government officials, and many others whose lives were altered by the war. The book is distinguished by historian Appy's (Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and …