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BOOK REVIEW Balanced account after the hysteria*

By Editorial Team / March 9, 2019




VIETNAM: An Epic Tragedy, 1945–75
by Max Hastings
HarperCollins, London Paperback: 752 pages Price: AUD$34.99
Reviewed by Bill James
Back in the late 1960s, I demonstrated against the Vietnam War as part of the “Neither Washington nor Hanoi” contingent.
While realising that such an ideal outcome was unlikely, I had decided that the tragic imposition of neo-Stalinism on the Vietnamese people was a lesser evil than the continuation of ho…

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