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Sinopse

Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh’s warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed 2 million people…

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Max Hastings

Max Hastings é autor de vinte e sete livros, a maioria sobre conflitos militares. Nasceu em Londres em 1945 e formou-se no University College, Oxford, antes de enveredar pelo jornalismo. Em 1967 integrou os quadros do World Press Institute, nos Estados Unidos. A partir de então trabalhou como repórter da BBC e colaborou em diversos jornais ingleses. Cobriu onze conflitos, incluindo o do Vietname, a guerra do Yom Kippur em 1973, e a guerra das Malvinas em…

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