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Vietnam : an epic tragedy, 1945-1975 / Max Hastings.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062405661
- ISBN: 0062405667
- Physical Description: xxxiii, 857 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 811-825) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- 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. |
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| Subject: | Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Vietnam > History > 1945-1975. |
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| Hollidaysburg Area Public Library | 959.7043 Has 2018 (Text) | 10HOL000437999 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hughes Library | 959.7043 HAS (Text) | 32378004946705 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Huntingdon County Library | NF 959.704 HAS (Text) | 30298100518517 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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| Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | 959.7043 HAS 2018 (Text) | 31001101736156 | Adult Non Fiction | Available | - |
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This item was purchased in honor of an anonymous donor for their donation to the Southern Lehigh Public Library Helping Hands Campaign 2018-2019.
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| Taylor Community Library | 959.7043 HASTING (Text) | 50692010874553 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
