Dwight John Zimmerman's and Wayne Vansant's book "The Vietnam War" is an excellent graphic novel that explains the major events of the Vietnam invasion and brutalization by mainly American forces. I love war graphic novels and the genre for graphic novels is a great way to tell a story to adolescents. This war was so unjust and should be a constant reminder of the havocs and barbarous actions that can occur when you have an industrial military complex that goes unchallenged. Eventually this war did go challenged as back then the government could force the poor into the military pool of conquest and slaughter. The protests of the war should of been covered more in this book and is the only fault I have of it.
this book should go into more detail on how the profiteers made this war the largest source of profit in history of the world. More bombs were dropped in Vietnam than what was dropped in the entire second War. this book gives an idea with its acute drawings of the tragedy of bombing everyday non-combatants that made the Americans and their war I Southeast Asia so vilified around the world. I wished to see more of the diseases and the brutal environment that the insects of these juggles played in making it more inhospitable for US soldiers to rape,plunder, and transverse from village to village. an overall great book for kids showing the evils of their country and the dealings it forced on other peoples in the name of winning the cold war and feeding the profit arms sales industry of the United States.
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