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010			_abl2018168524
020			_a9780062405661
020			_a0062405667
035			_a(SKY)sky291669328
035			_a410557
037			_bHarpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132
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050	1	4	_aDS557.7 _b.H37 2018
082	0	4	_a959.704/3 _223
100	1		_aHastings, Max,
245	1	0	_aVietnam : _ban epic tragedy, 1945-1975 / _cMax Hastings.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, _c[2018]
300			_axxxiii, 857 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 811-825) and index.
505	0		_aBeauty 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.
520			_aVietnam 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.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975.
651		0	_aVietnam _xHistory _y1945-1975.
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