They Marched Into Sunlight, David Maraniss
They Marched Into Sunlight, David Maraniss
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They Marched Into Sunlight
War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967

Author: David Maraniss

Narrator: David Maraniss

Abridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2003


Synopsis

David Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967.

With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while examining questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of truth—issues that are as relevant today as they were decades ago.

In a seamless narrative, Maraniss weaves together the stories of three very different worlds: the death and heroism of soldiers in Vietnam, the anger and anxiety of antiwar students back home, and the confusion and obfuscating behavior of officials in Washington. To understand what happens to the people in these interconnected stories is to understand America's anguish.

Based on thousands of primary documents and 180 on-the-record interviews, the book describes the battles that evoked cultural and political conflicts that still reverberate.

About David Maraniss

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s—Rome 1960Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on November 20, 2015

This is a book well worth reading. It's a funny thing, you know. The fact that I graduated from high school in 1965, just in time for the escalation of the Vietnam "war" "police action" "conflict". We were hauled off by the busloads to the nearest military base for our draft physicals within months......more

Goodreads review by Bryan on February 02, 2015

They Marched Into Sunlight is a fascinating, rich, and moving work of history. The conceit is unusual. Maraniss focuses on two events from the 1960s which occurred at about the same time. On October 17, 1967, Viet Cong troops ambushed a United States force. On October 18th a group of University of Wi......more

Goodreads review by Mike on November 30, 2012

I used this book as the basis for an LPD we hosted at Fort Drum prior to deploying to Iraq in 2006. I paired this with an accompanying PBS Frontline Special, "Two Days in October" and was able to involve the surviving company commander who is a central figure in the book. It is the story of a battal......more

Goodreads review by Samuel on March 05, 2025

A good book about the two horrendous days in Vietnam: giving both Domestic and International perspectives. Showing the division of the war on the USA......more

Goodreads review by Erik on February 10, 2018

Having grown up with the 'cold' and the Vietnam (actually SE Asian as the US also invaded Cambodia and Laos) wars this book had emotional resonance for me. The author, himself at the University of Wisconsin, Madison at the time, tells two stories, each from roughly two perspectives. On the one hand,......more