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"A landmark work...The most complete account to date of the Vietnam tragedy." -The Washington Post Book World

This monumental narrative clarifies, analyzes, and demystifies the tragic ordeal of the Vietnam war. Free of ideological bias, profound in its undertsanding, and compassionate in its human portrayls , it is filled with…

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Real, unbiased, definitive history of America's greatest debacle. This book teaches how the inflexible best and brightest set and maintained a course for disaster rather than pivot and admit to catastrophic mistakes.

The tragedy of losing 58,000 Americans and the destruction of LBJ. Elitists err, survive, move on, and the common man dies in rice paddies. Power intoxicates the otherwise reasonable person to be anything but.

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