Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `His masterpiece' Antony Beevor,
Spectator `A masterful performance' Sunday Times `By far the best
book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the
Year 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. He portrays the set pieces of
Dienbienphu, the Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and
less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US
Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary
recollections of Ho Chi Minh's warriors.Here are the vivid
realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed 2 million
people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings
sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom
forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were
matched by those committed by their enemies.While all the world has
seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it
forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings and murders carried out
by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter
price for the Northerners' victory in privation and oppression.
Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers,
Saigon bargirls and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen
from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, Huey pilots from
Arkansas.No past volume has blended a political and military
narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal
experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings' readers know so
well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this
struggle with so many lessons for the 21st century about the misuse
of military might to confront intractable political and cultural
challenges. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants,
statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record.
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William Collins
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