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Vietnam : an epic tragedy 1945-1975
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. Hax 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 1968 Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and much less familiar sagas 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 two million people
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2019-0072 | 959.7 HAS V | Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center Library | Available |
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959.7 HAS V
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Publisher | William Collins : London., 2018 |
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xxx, 722 hlm. : ilus. ; 24 cm.
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English
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978-0-00-813299-6
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959.7
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Statement of Responsibility |
Hastings, Max
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