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This paper discusses and analyzes the book "They Marched Into Sunlight, War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967" by David Maraniss. The paper notes that the book centers on two events that happened a day apart in locations half way around the world from each other. These were the Battle of Ong Thanh on October 17, 1967, in Vietnam, and a protest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 18, 1967. The paper stresses that the main highlight of the book is that America was undergoing drastic changes at this time, and both of these incidents illustrate the change and revolution going on inside and outside America in 1967.

From the Paper:

"The author is clearly qualified to write this book. He is a journalist for the Washington Post newspaper, and he has written several biographies and histories before this one. His writing style is readable and interesting, and it makes all the participants sympathetic, even if they are Vietcong fighters on their way to ambush American soldiers, as well. For example, he writes of Triet, the Vietcong fighter, "Lunch was a small portion of pressed rice, if available and for energy in the early afternoon Triet reached into his pocket and pulled out a tiny piece of the hundred grams of ginseng that he had bought in a traditional medicine shop in Hanoi".

Sample of Sources Used:

• Maraniss, David. They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

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