Xiaobing Li, professor and chair of the Department of History and Geography and director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma, is the author of China at War (2011), Civil Liberties in China (2010), A History of the Modern Chinese Army (2007), and coauthor of Voices from the Korean War (2004) and Mao's General Remember Korea (2002). He served in the People's Liberation Army in China.
" Voices from the Vietnam War is an excellent addition to the
historiography and an important work that helps internationalize
and personalize the war in Vietnam. -- H-Net Reviews" -- Martin
Clemis, H-Net Reviews
""A valuable oral history."-- Journal of America's Mility Past"
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""An essential book for anyone writing non-revisionist history of
our most propagandized war."-- Cybertronian Reviews" --
""It is fascinating to hear about the war from such different
viewpoints, and the author does an exceptional job in balancing his
presentation and allowing the facts to speak for themselves."--WTBF
Radio" --
""It is the first oral history of the war -- and there has been a
large shelf full of them in the genre -- to include the
first-person voices of Chinese and Russian veterans among those
from this country and Vietnam. Another criterion of a good oral
history is that it unveils the human side of war. That is done well
in this book, as the veterans from all nationalities talk about
their wartime jobs as well as their personal lives before, during
and after their service in Vietnam."-- HistoryNet" --
""Li successfully finds a fresh and intriguing niche for his
collection of twenty-two individual Vietnam War stories. This
should make a first-rate supplementary text."--Robert J. McMahon,
author of The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast
Asia since World War II" --
""Li's book offers, for the first time in English, the direct
testimony of Russian and Chinese veterans of the Vietnam War,
including a former KGB spy."-- VVA Veteran" --
""This volume of interviews with Vietnam War veterans adds new and
surprising dimensions to our understanding of the scope of the
war.... Some of this book is heartrending; some of it is as
gripping as a thriller; and all of it will add to our understanding
of the war."-- Booklist" --
"[...] Overall, Li's interviews add new dimensions to our
understanding of the impact and scope of the war, and his book is a
valuable contribution to the Vietnam War historiography.[...] Li's
book is a good read and a suitable assignment for courses on the
Vietnam War." -- Journal of Cold War Studies
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