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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

List of Illustrations

List of 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

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