Hastings would have done well to have started his story after the French departure because M. Fall is/was a vastly superior historian and philosopher with clearly far greater insight than MH. Otherwise as an agglomeration of other people's work it is a good place /5(2K). · Many books about the war portray Vietnam as a US tragedy, yet Max portrays it as an overwhelmingly Vietnamese one, in which forty local people died for every American. Here is vivid testimony from NVA soldiers, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, bomber pilots from Arkansas, . · Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in , then a vastly greater one for the United States in 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 Brand: HarperCollins Publishers.
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, (Audiobook) Published October 16th by HarperAudio. Audiobook. Author (s): Max Hastings (Author, Narrator) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Vietnam An Epic Tragedy: Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive conflict since the Second World War, first creating a humiliation for France in , then a vastly greater one for the United States in Max has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants from both sides in Vietnam and the United. Click to read more about Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, by Max Hastings. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers All about Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, by Max Hastings.
Hastings would have done well to have started his story after the French departure because M. Fall is/was a vastly superior historian and philosopher with clearly far greater insight than MH. Otherwise as an agglomeration of other people's work it is a good place to start an appreciation of Vietnam to His new book Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, , is a well researched, balanced, and inclusive view of the conflict in Vietnam. Instead of taking the more usual route of writing from the American perspective, Hastings has taken on the voice of the Vietnamese people who suffered cruelly during the conflict. Many books about the war portray Vietnam as a US tragedy, yet Max portrays it as an overwhelmingly Vietnamese one, in which forty local people died for every American. Here is vivid testimony from NVA soldiers, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, bomber pilots from Arkansas, prisoners from Nevada.
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