Vietnam
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Max Hastings. Vietnam
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Epigraph
Introduction
Note on Styles Adopted in the Text
Glossary
1. Beauty and Many Beasts. 1 CLINGING TO AN EMPIRE
2 THE VIETMINH MARCH
2. The ‘Dirty War’ 1 STEAMROLLER TYPES
2 WASHINGTON PICKS UP THE TAB
3 PEASANTS
3. The Fortress That Never Was. 1 WAITING FOR GIAP
2 DISASTER BECKONS
4. Bloody Footprints. 1 QUIT – OR BOMB?
2 ‘A TRIUMPH OF THE WILL’
3 GENEVA
5. The Twin Tyrannies. 1 ‘A REGIME OF TERROR’
2 ‘THE ONLY BOY WE GOT’
3 BOOM TIME
4 A RECALL TO ARMS
6. Some of the Way With JFK. 1 ‘THEY’RE GOING TO LOSE THEIR COUNTRY IF …’
2 McNAMARA’S MONARCHY
3 LE DUAN RAISES HIS STAKE
7. 1963: Coffins for Two Presidents. 1 SMALL BATTLE, BIG STORY: AP BAC
2 THE BUDDHISTS REVOLT
3 KILLING TIME
8. The Maze. 1 ‘ENOUGH WAR FOR EVERYBODY’
2 DODGING DECISIONS
9. Into the Gulf. 1 LIES
2 HAWKS ASCENDANT
10 ‘We Are Puzzled About How to Proceed’ 1 DOWN THE TRAIL
2 COMMITTAL
11. The Escalator. 1 ‘BOTTOM OF THE BARREL’
2 NEW PEOPLE, NEW WAR
12 ‘Trying to Grab Smoke’ 1 WARRIORS AND WATER-SKIERS
2 UNFRIENDLY FIRE
3 TRAPS AND TRAIL DUST
13. Graft and Peppermint Oil. 1 STEALING
2 RULING
3 GURUS
14. Rolling Thunder. 1 STONE AGE, MISSILE AGE
2 ‘UP NORTH’
15. Taking the Pain. 1 BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES
2 FRIENDS
16. Waist-Deep in the Big Muddy. 1 PEACENIKS
2 WARNIKS
3 FIELDCRAFT
4 GUNS
17. Our Guys, Their Guys: the Vietnamese War. 1 SONG QUA NGAY – ‘LET’S JUST GET THROUGH THE DAY’
2 FIGHTERS
3 SAIGON SOLDIERS
18. Tet. 1 PRELUDE
2 FUGUE
3 A SYMBOLIC HUMILIATION
19. The Giant Reels. 1 FIGHTING BACK
2 SURRENDER OF A PRESIDENT
20. Continuous Replay. 1 DYING
2 TALKING
21. Nixon’s Inheritance. 1 A CRUMBLING ARMY
2 AUSSIES AND KIWIS
3 GODS
4 VIETNAMISATION
22. Losing by Instalments. 1 THE FISHHOOK AND THE PARROT’S BEAK
2 COUNTER-TERROR
3 LAM SON 719
23. Collateral Damage. 1 MARY ANN
2 THE ‘GOAT’
3 ‘LET’S GO HOME’
24. The Biggest Battle. 1 LE DUAN FORCES THE PACE
2 THE STORM BREAKS
3 AN EMPTY VICTORY
25. Big Ugly Fat Fellers. 1 ‘IT WILL ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, WIPE OUT McGOVERN’
2 ‘WE’LL BOMB THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF THEM’
26. A Kiss Before Dying. 1 THE PRISONER
2 ‘PEACE’
3 WAR OF THE FLAGS
27. The Last Act. 1 INVASION
2 ‘AH, MY COUNTRY, MY POOR COUNTRY’
28. Afterwards. 1 VENGEANCE
2 THE AUDIT OF WAR
Picture Section
Acknowledgements
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index
Also by Max Hastings
About the Publisher
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