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. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as resear...
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Physical Description: | xxxiii, 857 Seiten, [32] ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Karten, Portraits |
| ISBN: | 9780062405661 |
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CONTENTS
List of Maps xvii
Introduction xix
Note on Styles Adopted in the Text xxvii
Glossary of Common Acronyms and Military Terms xxix
1 BEAUTY AND MANY BEASTS 1
1. Clinging to an Empire 1
2. The Vietminh March 10
2 THE “DIRTY WAR” 21
1. Steamroller Types 21
2. Washington Picks Up the Tab 32
3. Peasants 36
3 THE FORTRESS THAT NEVER WAS 45
1. Waiting for Giap 45
2. Disaster Beckons 55
4 BLOODY FOOTPRINTS 66
1. Quit or Bomb? 66
2. “A Triumph of the Will” 73
3. Geneva 82
Xll
CONTENTS
5 THE TWIN TYRANNIES 95
1. “A Regime of Terror” 95
2. “The Only Boy We Got” 104
3. Boom Time 110
4. A Recall to Arms 116
6 SOME OF THE WAY WITH JFK 127
1. “They’re Going to Lose Their Country If . . 127
2. McNamara’s Monarchy 141
3. Le Duan Raises His Stake 148
7 1963: COFFINS FOR TWO PRESIDENTS 155
1. Small Battle, Big Story: Ap Bac 155
2. The Buddhists Revolt 166
3. Killing Time 170
8 THE MAZE 185
1. “Enough War for Everybody” 185
2. Dodging Decisions 197
9 INTO THE GULF 213
1. Lies 213
2. Hawks Ascendant 222
10 “WE ARE PUZZLED ABOUT HOW TO PROCEED” 234
1. Down the Trail 234
2. Committal 241
11 THE ESCALATOR 256
1. “Bottom of the Barrel” 256
2. New People, New War 268
CONTENTS
• Xlll
12 “TRYING TO GRAB SMOKE" 288
1. Warriors and Water-Skiers 288
2. Unfriendly Fire 295
3. Traps and Trail Dust 302
13 GRAFT AND PEPPERMINT OIL 312
1. Stealing 312
2. Ruling 315
3. Gurus 321
14 ROLLING THUNDER 328
1. Stone Age, Missile Age 328
2. “Up North" 340
15 TAKING THE PAIN 358
1. Best of Times, Worst of Times 358
2. Friends 364
16 “WAIST DEEP IN THE BIG MUDDY” 379
1. Peaceniks 379
2. Warniks 386
3. Fieldcraft 392
4. Guns 406
17 OUR GUYS, THEIR GUYS: THE VIETNAMESE WAR 413
1. Song Qua Ngay—“Let’s Just Get Through the Day” 413
2. Fighters 418
3. Saigon Soldiers 429
18 TET 434
1. Prelude 434
2. Fugue 444
3. A Symbolic Humiliation 455
xiv • CONTENTS
19 THE GIANT REELS 461
1. Fighting Back 461
2. Surrender of a President 480
20 CONTINUOUS REPLAYS 488
1. Dying 488
2. Talking 510
21 NIXON’S INHERITANCE ' 516
1. A Crumbling Army 516
2. Aussies and Kiwis 533
3. Gods 544
4. Vietnamization 550
22 LOSING BY INSTALLMENTS 556
1. The Fishhook and the Parrot’s Beak 556
2. Counterterror 564
3. Lam Son 719 572
23 COLLATERAL DAMAGE 585
1. Mary Ann 585
2. The "Goat” 593
3. “Let’s Go Home” 597
24 THE BIGGEST BATTLE 601
1. Le Duan Forces the Pace 601
2. The Storm Breaks 606
3. An Empty Victory 633
25 BIG UGLY FAT FELLERS 639
1. “It Will Absolutely, Totally, Wipe Out McGovern” 639
2. “We’ll Bomb the Bejeezus out of Them” 649
CONTENTS
• XV
26 A KISS BEFORE DYING 664
1. The Prisoner 664
2. “Peace” 668
3. War of the Flags 675
27 THE LAST ACT 689
1. Invasion 689
2. “Ah, My Country, My Poor Country” 708
28 AFTERWARD 726
1. Vengeance 726
2. The Audit of War 739
Acknowledgments 753
Notes 757
Select Bibliography 811
Index 827 |
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