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The Long Rain of Fire

The Long Rain of Fire

Cohen, E. B.

Paperback

Armed ForcesSoutheast Asian HistoryVietnam War

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ISBN13: 9798235193178
Publisher: E.B Cohen
Pages: 590
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

For thirty years the war in Vietnam consumed everything it touched: a French empire, an American presidency and then another, three million Vietnamese lives by the highest estimates, and 58,220 American ones - along with America's certainty about itself.

Here is the whole story, told from all sides: the thousand-year nation that outlasted China and France; Ho Chi Minh quoting Jefferson in Ba Dinh Square while Washington looked away; Dien Bien Phu and a country cut in two; Diem, the burning monk, and a coup that trapped America in its own creation; the Marines at Da Nang, Ia Drang, and the years of search-and-destroy; the tunnels of Cu Chi and the trail that could not be cut; Tet, Hue, and My Lai; a home front torn apart from Chicago to Kent State; Nixon's secret war, the Christmas bombing, and a peace that was only an interval; the Convoy of Tears, Xuan Loc, and the helicopters of April 1975; and the long aftermath - the boat people, Agent Orange, the Wall, and the astonishing handshake that made enemies into partners.

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