The New Press has created a new series of books with Howard Zinn as the series editor! An incisive, class-conscious account of the war America lost, from the perspective of those who opposed it on both sides of the battlefront and homefront.

The protagonists in the “American War” (as the Vietnamese refer to it) are common people struggling to shape the outcome of events unfolding on an international stage—American foot soldiers who increasingly opposed American military policy on the ground in Vietnam, local Vietnamese activists and guerrillas fighting to build a just society, and the American civilians who mobilized to bring the war to a halt. The narrative includes vivid, first-person commentary from the ordinary men and women whose collective actions resulted in the defeat of the world’s most powerful military machine.