Vietnam : an epic tragedy, 1945-1975 /
Hastings, Max,
Vietnam : an epic tragedy, 1945-1975 / Max Hastings. - First edition. - xxxiii, 857 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 811-825) and index.
Beauty and Many Beasts--The "Dirty" War--The Fortress That Never Was--Bloody Footprints--The Twin Tyrannies--Some of the Way With JFK--1963: Coffins For Two Presidents--The Maze--Into the Gulf--We are Puzzled about How to Proceed--The Escalator--Trying to Grab Smoke--Graft and Peppermint Oil--Rolling Thunder--Taking the Pain--"Waist Deep" in the Big Muddy--Our Guys, Their Guys: The Vietnamese War--Tet--The Giant Reels--Continuous Replays--Nixon's Inheritance--Losing By Installments--Collateral Damage--The Biggest Battle--Big Ugly Fat Fellers--A Kiss Before Dying--The Last Act--Afterward.
Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle.
9780062405661 0062405667
Harpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132
bl2018168524
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Vietnam--History--1945-1975.
DS557.7 / .H37 2018
959.704/3
Vietnam : an epic tragedy, 1945-1975 / Max Hastings. - First edition. - xxxiii, 857 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 811-825) and index.
Beauty and Many Beasts--The "Dirty" War--The Fortress That Never Was--Bloody Footprints--The Twin Tyrannies--Some of the Way With JFK--1963: Coffins For Two Presidents--The Maze--Into the Gulf--We are Puzzled about How to Proceed--The Escalator--Trying to Grab Smoke--Graft and Peppermint Oil--Rolling Thunder--Taking the Pain--"Waist Deep" in the Big Muddy--Our Guys, Their Guys: The Vietnamese War--Tet--The Giant Reels--Continuous Replays--Nixon's Inheritance--Losing By Installments--Collateral Damage--The Biggest Battle--Big Ugly Fat Fellers--A Kiss Before Dying--The Last Act--Afterward.
Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle.
9780062405661 0062405667
Harpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132
bl2018168524
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Vietnam--History--1945-1975.
DS557.7 / .H37 2018
959.704/3