02928cam a2200409Mi 4500999001700000001000800017003000800025005001700033008004100050020001800091020001500109035001200124035002200136035002400158040003300182050002300215082001800238090002400256096002300280100003500303245005900338250001900397264007500416300009200491336002100583337002500604338002300629504006700652520156400719650003502283651004002318852001402358852001402372852001402386942001402400952010402414  c26292d262926904516MeVbMML20190502002857.0170823s2018    nyuabf   b    001 0 eng d  a9780062405661  a0062405667  a6709091  a(OCoLC)1001744417  a(OCoLC)on1001744417  aYDXbengcYDXerdadFBPdMLY14aDS557.7b.H37 201804a959.704/3223  aDS557.7b.H37 2018x  a959.7043 Hastings 1 aHastings, Max,eauthor.91021910aVietnam :ban epic tragedy, 1945-1975 /cMax Hastings.  aFirst edition. 1aNew York, NY :bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,c[2018]  axxxiii, 857 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :billustrations (some color) ;c24 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 757-825) and index.  a"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 1968 Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and also much less familiar miniatures 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. 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, and Huey pilots from Arkansas"--cProvided by publisher.  0aVietnam War, 1961-1975.910220 0aVietnamxHistoryy1945-1975.910221  dNew Shelf  dNew Shelf  dNew Shelf  2ddccBOOK  2ddc4070aABELJbabeljcNFd2019-04-02g37.50l0o959.70 HASTp38534r2019-04-02w2019-04-02yBOOK