Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975

20 Continuous Replay (#litres_trial_promo)

1 DYING

2 TALKING (#litres_trial_promo)

21 Nixon’s Inheritance (#litres_trial_promo)

1 A CRUMBLING ARMY

2 AUSSIES AND KIWIS (#litres_trial_promo)

3 GODS (#litres_trial_promo)

4 VIETNAMISATION (#litres_trial_promo)

22 Losing by Instalments (#litres_trial_promo)

1 THE FISHHOOK AND THE PARROT’S BEAK

2 COUNTER-TERROR (#litres_trial_promo)

3 LAM SON 719 (#litres_trial_promo)

23 Collateral Damage (#litres_trial_promo)

1 MARY ANN

2 THE ‘GOAT’ (#litres_trial_promo)

3 ‘LET’S GO HOME’ (#litres_trial_promo)

24 The Biggest Battle (#litres_trial_promo)

1 LE DUAN FORCES THE PACE

2 THE STORM BREAKS (#litres_trial_promo)

3 AN EMPTY VICTORY (#litres_trial_promo)

25 Big Ugly Fat Fellers (#litres_trial_promo)

1 ‘IT WILL ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, WIPE OUT McGOVERN’

2 ‘WE’LL BOMB THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF THEM’ (#litres_trial_promo)

26 A Kiss Before Dying (#litres_trial_promo)

1 THE PRISONER

2 ‘PEACE’ (#litres_trial_promo)

3 WAR OF THE FLAGS (#litres_trial_promo)

27 The Last Act (#litres_trial_promo)

1 INVASION

2 ‘AH, MY COUNTRY, MY POOR COUNTRY’ (#litres_trial_promo)

28 Afterwards (#litres_trial_promo)

1 VENGEANCE

2 THE AUDIT OF WAR (#litres_trial_promo)

Picture Section (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

Notes and References (#litres_trial_promo)

Bibliography (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Max Hastings (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Illustrations (#u736fbc1c-9c92-5aad-b53b-0259705d8530)

Tonkin, 1896: entrance to the pagoda of the Great Buddha. (#litres_trial_promo)(© BnF, département des Cartes et Plans, Société de géographie, Sg XCm 707)

Tonkin, 1908: French officers with the heads of Vietnamese suspected of poisoning French troops. (#litres_trial_promo)(Apic/Getty Images)

1945: victims of the catastrophic famine that swept northern Vietnam. (#litres_trial_promo)(Special Collections & University Archives Department, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, Florida)

OSS officers with Vo Nguyen Giap and Ho Chi Minh. (#litres_trial_promo)

French troops with a Vietminh suspect (#litres_trial_promo). (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

French troops bring in a casualty. (#litres_trial_promo)(©Daniel Camus/ECPAD/Défense)

Dienbienphu, November 1953. (#litres_trial_promo)(Keystone/Staff)

Giap and Ho. (#litres_trial_promo)(Collection Jean-Claude LABBE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Cogny, de Castries and Navarre. (#litres_trial_promo)(Ullstein bild Dtl./Getty Images)