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Vietnam : an epic tragedy, 1945-1975 / Max Hastings.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: xxxiii, 857 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062405661
  • 0062405667
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.704/3 23
LOC classification:
  • DS557.7 .H37 2018
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks DS557.7 .H37 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001451557

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.

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