Vietnam. The history of the tragedy. 1945-1975

“Vietnam” is the next fundamental work of Hastings, the author of the bestseller “First World War” and “Second World War”, a truly large -scale narrative of the epic struggle. In his new book, Hastings describes the war in Vietnam in all details: the chronology of combat clashes, the life of a simple population in the conditions of war, atrocities on the one and the other side of the conflict, backstage political games, personal memories of the participants.
The war in Vietnam is one of the most controversial conflicts in the modern Western world, which in 1954 became a national humiliation for France, and then, in 1975, even greater shame for the United States. Working on the book, Max Histings spent three years, talking with many participants on both sides, exploring hundreds of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs. The battle of Dyenbieenf, the Tetsk offensive of 1968, the air blitz of the North Vietnam, the less known bloody clash in Daido, where the US Marine Corps was almost completely destroyed - bright fragments of the general panorama of the war among the jungle and rice fields, in which 2 million people died