A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history.

* Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race.

* Covers the breadth of Vietnam War history, including American war policies, the Vietnamese perspective, the antiwar movement, and the American home front.

* Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.

* Includes a select bibliography to guide further research.