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A gripping, well-researched look at a divisive American war. --New York Post This balanced and insightful book is a pleasure to read. It destroys the fantasy that one side or the other held the moral high ground or a monopoly on devastating folly. --Karl Marlantes, author of What It Is Like to Go to War and Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War This is a comprehensive, spellbinding, surprisingly intimate, and altogether magnificent historical narrative. --Tim O'Brien, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Things They Carried A comprehensive and compelling narrative that illuminates political and military tactics and strategies -- and the daily realities of a war that killed 2 million people. --Pittsburgh Post Gazette We've seen a shelf-load of histories, analyses, memoirs, and novels on Vietnam. But what Hastings does in Vietnam is pull all these genres together in a highly readable and vivid narrative that, I think, will become the standard on the war for many years to come. --NPR.org

""We've seen a shelf-load of histories, analyses, memoirs, and novels on Vietnam. But what Hastings does in Vietnam is pull all these genres together in a highly readable and vivid narrative that, I think, will become the standard on the war for many years to come."" -- NPR.org ""This is a comprehensive, spellbinding, surprisingly intimate, and altogether magnificent historical narrative."" -- Tim O'Brien, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Things They Carried ""This balanced and insightful book is a pleasure to read. It destroys the fantasy that one side or the other held the moral high ground or a monopoly on devastating folly."" -- Karl Marlantes, author of What It Is Like to Go to War and Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War ""A gripping, well-researched look at a divisive American war."" -- New York Post ""A comprehensive and compelling narrative that illuminates political and military tactics and strategies -- and the daily realities of a war that killed 2 million people."" -- Pittsburgh Post Gazette

A gripping, well-researched look at a divisive American war. --New York Post This is a comprehensive, spellbinding, surprisingly intimate, and altogether magnificent historical narrative. --Tim O'Brien, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Things They Carried A comprehensive and compelling narrative that illuminates political and military tactics and strategies -- and the daily realities of a war that killed 2 million people. --Pittsburgh Post Gazette We've seen a shelf-load of histories, analyses, memoirs, and novels on Vietnam. But what Hastings does in Vietnam is pull all these genres together in a highly readable and vivid narrative that, I think, will become the standard on the war for many years to come. --NPR.org This balanced and insightful book is a pleasure to read. It destroys the fantasy that one side or the other held the moral high ground or a monopoly on devastating folly. --Karl Marlantes, author of What It Is Like to Go to War and Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

A gripping, well-researched look at a divisive American war. --New York Post We've seen a shelf-load of histories, analyses, memoirs, and novels on Vietnam. But what Hastings does in Vietnam is pull all these genres together in a highly readable and vivid narrative that, I think, will become the standard on the war for many years to come. --NPR.org A comprehensive and compelling narrative that illuminates political and military tactics and strategies -- and the daily realities of a war that killed 2 million people. --Pittsburgh Post Gazette This is a comprehensive, spellbinding, surprisingly intimate, and altogether magnificent historical narrative. --Tim O'Brien, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Things They Carried This balanced and insightful book is a pleasure to read. It destroys the fantasy that one side or the other held the moral high ground or a monopoly on devastating folly. --Karl Marlantes, author of What It Is Like to Go to War and Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

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Max Hastings is the author of twenty-eight books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor in chief of the Daily Telegraph, then as editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes, for both his journalism and his books, the most recent of which are the bestsellers Vietnam, The Secret War, Catastrophe, and All Hell Let Loose. Knighted in 2002, Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College London, and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has two grown children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife, Penny, in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

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