Vietnam. Max Hastings

2 COMMITTAL

       11 The Escalator

       1 ‘BOTTOM OF THE BARREL’

       2 NEW PEOPLE, NEW WAR

       12 ‘Trying to Grab Smoke’

       1 WARRIORS AND WATER-SKIERS

       2 UNFRIENDLY FIRE

       3 TRAPS AND TRAIL DUST

       13 Graft and Peppermint Oil

       1 STEALING

       2 RULING

       3 GURUS

       14 Rolling Thunder

       1 STONE AGE, MISSILE AGE

       2 ‘UP NORTH’

       15 Taking the Pain

       1 BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES

       2 FRIENDS

       16 Waist-Deep in the Big Muddy

       1 PEACENIKS

       2 WARNIKS

       3 FIELDCRAFT

       4 GUNS

       17 Our Guys, Their Guys: the Vietnamese War

       1 SONG QUA NGAY – ‘LET’S JUST GET THROUGH THE DAY’

       2 FIGHTERS

       3 SAIGON SOLDIERS

       18 Tet

       1 PRELUDE

       2 FUGUE

       3 A SYMBOLIC HUMILIATION

       19 The Giant Reels

       1 FIGHTING BACK

       2 SURRENDER OF A PRESIDENT

       20 Continuous Replay

       1 DYING

       2 TALKING

       21 Nixon’s Inheritance

       1 A CRUMBLING ARMY

       2 AUSSIES AND KIWIS

       3 GODS

       4 VIETNAMISATION

       22 Losing by Instalments

       1 THE FISHHOOK AND THE PARROT’S BEAK

       2 COUNTER-TERROR

       3 LAM SON 719

       23 Collateral Damage

       1 MARY ANN

       2 THE ‘GOAT’

       3 ‘LET’S GO HOME’

       24 The Biggest Battle

       1 LE DUAN FORCES THE PACE

       2 THE STORM BREAKS

       3 AN EMPTY VICTORY

       25 Big Ugly Fat Fellers

       1 ‘IT WILL ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, WIPE OUT McGOVERN’

       2 ‘WE’LL BOMB THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF THEM’

       26 A Kiss Before Dying

       1 THE PRISONER

       2 ‘PEACE’

       3 WAR OF THE FLAGS

       27 The Last Act

       1 INVASION

       2 ‘AH, MY COUNTRY, MY POOR COUNTRY’

       28 Afterwards

       1 VENGEANCE

       2 THE AUDIT OF WAR

       Picture Section

       Acknowledgements