Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War stands today as one of the most controversial sets of conflicts and decisions in the history of the United States, and is referenced more day by day as parallels are drawn to the US conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. With these divisive lines in play, Mark Moyar's self proclaimed "Revisionist" history in Triumph Forsaken has created a heated debate over who "owns" the history of America's war in Vietnam.Triumph Revisited collects critiques of the book from both sides of this debate, written by an array of Vietnam scholars, cataloguing arguments about how the war will be remembered, how history may be reconstructed, and by whom. Each essay in Triumph Revisited is framed by editors Andrew Wiest and Michael Doidge to provide context, balance, and historiographic lessons for the reader.Objective and instructive, Triumph Revisited provides an excellent resource for those interested in the nature of historiography, and the way in which America will remember the Vietnam War.