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How on earth did North Vietnam prevail against the world’s greatest power?

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

The 50th anniversary of the Vietnam war has produced an outpouring of books, along with Ken Burns’s 18-hour television spectacular, which sparked in the United States yet another round of heated debate on the war. The journalist and military historian Max Hastings’s fast-paced and often compelling narrative will surely rank as one of the best products of this half-century reappraisal.

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