TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hastings,Max
TI  - Vietnam: an epic tragedy, 1945-1975 
SN  - 9780062405661
AV  - DS557.7 .H37 2018
U1  - 959.704/3 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - History
KW  - 1945-1975
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -