Max Hastings - Vietnam - An Epic History Of A Tragic War.

Vietnam. An Epic History Of A Tragic War

Vietnam - An Epic History Of A Tragic War (Broché)

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Author: Max Hastings
ISBN: 9780008133016

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Max Hastings

HarperCollins publishers
Paru le : 02/05/2019

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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. No past account has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American.
He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an epic history of a tragic struggle.

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Date de parution : 02/05/2019
Editeur : HarperCollins publishers
ISBN : 978-0-00-813301-6
EAN : 9780008133016
Format : Grand Format
Présentation : Broché
Nb. de pages : 722 pages
Poids : 0.57 Kg
Dimensions : 12,8 cm × 19,7 cm × 4,5 cm

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Biographie de Max Hastings

Max Hastings chronicles Vietnam with the benefit of vivid personal memories : first of reporting in 1967-68 from the United States, where he encountered many of the war's decision-makers including President Lyndon Johnson, then of successive assignments in Indochina for newspapers and BBC TV : he rode a helicopter out of the US Saigon embassy compound during the 1975 final evacuation. He is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard.
He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, bestsellers translated around the world. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.