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

French officers escort a Vietminh unit into their lines following the July 1954 ceasefire. (#litres_trial_promo)(PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Lodge and Diem. (#litres_trial_promo)(Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Nguyen Thuy Nga and Le Duan. (#litres_trial_promo)

Mao Zedong and Le Duc Tho. (#litres_trial_promo)(Bettmann/Getty Images)

Lou Conein. (#litres_trial_promo)

Gen. Max Taylor and Gen. Paul Harkins. (#litres_trial_promo)(Larry Burrows/Getty Images)

The Ho Chi Minh Trail. (#litres_trial_promo)(© Le Minh Truong/Another Vietnam)

Hueys. (#litres_trial_promo)(Bettmann/Getty Images)

Special forces camp at Plei Me under Vietcong assault in 1965. (#litres_trial_promo)(Bettmann/Getty Images)

Walt Boomer. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Walter Boomer)

Tim O’Brien. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Tim O’Brien)

John Paul Vann and Doug Ramsey. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Doug Ramsey)

Bob Kerrey. (#litres_trial_promo)

Leon Gouré. (#litres_trial_promo)(State Archives of Florida)

Australian private Tom Blackhurst. (#litres_trial_promo)(© Australian War Memorial C36943)

Mike Eiland. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Mike Eiland)

Classic combat image by Don McCullin. (#litres_trial_promo)(© Don McCullin)

Doan Phuong Hai. (#litres_trial_promo)

Bao Ninh. (#litres_trial_promo)(© 1993 The Sorrow of War)

Nguyen Cong Luan. (#litres_trial_promo)

Truong Nhu Tang. (#litres_trial_promo)

1st Air Cav at An Thi. (#litres_trial_promo)(AP/Shutterstock)

Maxwell Taylor and William Westmoreland. (#litres_trial_promo)(Silverwell Films)

Duong Van Mai. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Duong Van Mai Elliott)

Nguyen Thi Chinh. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Kieu Chinh)

Vietcong doctor Dang Thuy Tram. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Dang Thuy Tram)

Body count. (#litres_trial_promo)(Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Dan Hickman. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Dan Hickman)

Jeff Anthony. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Jeff Anthony)

Bob Nelson. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Bob Nelson)

David Rogers. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of David Rogers)

A US Marine carries an injured woman to safety. (#litres_trial_promo)(Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Hue 1968: Marine officer Myron Harrington with British photographer Don McCullin. (#litres_trial_promo)(Nik Wheeler/Corbis via Getty Images)

Gen. Creighton Abrams. (#litres_trial_promo)(Bettmann/Getty Images)

A bonze immolates himself on a Saigon street in 1965. (#litres_trial_promo)(Malcolm Brown/AP/REX/Shutterstock)

South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Vietcong prisoner during Tet 1968. (#litres_trial_promo)(Eddie Adams/AP/Shutterstock)

Children flee a 1972 napalm strike. (#litres_trial_promo)(Nick Ut/AP/Shutterstock)

New York Times correspondent Harrison Salisbury with Pham Van Dong, 1966. (#litres_trial_promo)(Black and White Photograph of Harrison Salisbury and Pham Van Dong, Hanoi, 1966–67. MS#1509, Box 210, Folder 23, Harrison E. Salisbury Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York)

North Vietnamese salvage wreckage from a downed US aircraft. (#litres_trial_promo)(© Doan Cong Tinh/Another Vietnam)

Dean Rusk, John F. Kennedy and Robert McNamara. (#litres_trial_promo)(Bill Allen/AP/REX/Shutterstock)

Lyndon Johnson harangues journalists, including the author, in the White House cabinet room, January 1968. (#litres_trial_promo)(Author’s collection)

Henry Kissinger, Nguyen Cao Ky, Ellsworth Bunker, Nguyen Van Thieu and Richard Nixon, 1969. (#litres_trial_promo)(VA004679, Douglas Pike Photograph Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University)

Bill Weise after being wounded at Daido, May 1968. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of William Weise)

Marines attack at Daido. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of William Weise)

Jim Livingston. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of James E. Livingston)

Staged shot of North Vietnamese troops. (#litres_trial_promo)(© Hoang Mai/Another Vietnam)

Ho Chi Minh and Le Duan. (#litres_trial_promo)(© Marc Riboud/Magnum Photos)

Frank Snepp. (#litres_trial_promo)(Courtesy of Frank Snepp)

Catherine Anne Warnes. (#litres_trial_promo)

Gen. Van Tien Dung. (#litres_trial_promo)(AP Photo/Vietnam News Agency/REX/Shutterstock)