The War in Vietnam.(book on CD-ROM; Review of Books and Multimedia) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, May, 1996
THE WAR IN VIETNAM. Macmillan Digital US; $49.95
IF FOR any reason you have to mug up on America's war in Vietnam, there are many worse places to start than in the newspaper morgue at the New York Times or in the CBS archive of news-scripts and videos. For the price of a Broadway show, multimedia puts these in reach of the general public. This CD-ROM is that rare thing: a useful and intelligent example of how to present huge amounts of data--written, spoken and filmed--concerning a divisive piece of recent history.
After introductory sounds of Asian music, breaking twigs and gunfire, the menu screen fills with eight panels. One offers a brief historical overview with key points or names in blue to click on for more information. The other seven panels lead to...
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