La guerra de Vietnam

Vietnam was the most divisive modern conflict in the Western world. Max Hastings has spent the last three years interviewing dozens of participants from all sides, digging through American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays scenes from Dien Bien Phu, the North Vietnamese air raid, and lesser-known battles such as the bloodbath at Daido. Here are the lived realities of the fight in the middle of the jungle and the rice fields that killed two million people. Many have treated this war as a tragedy for the United States, however, Hastings does not forget the Vietnamese: in this work there are testimonies of Vietcong guerrillas, paratroopers from the south, girls from Saigon and students from Hanoi, along with soldiers from South Dakota infantry, North Carolina marines, and Arkansas pilots. No other work on the Vietnam War has blended a political and military narrative of the conflict with poignant personal experiences: the hallmark of Max Hastings that readers know so well.