How long does it take to read Patriots?
The Vietnam War remembered from all sides
Patriots by Christian G. Appy takes about 10 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 579 pages, about 159,225 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war?s path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides? Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, Patriots is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war.
Subjects: Vietnam-oorlog, Personal narratives, Vietnamkrieg, Personliga berättelser
