The last man to die in Vietnam -- The Vietnamese : the long road to revolution -- Ho Chi Minh : the making of a revolutionary -- Ho Chi Minh meets the OSS -- The French war in Vietnam : the elephant and the tiger -- Tumbling dominoes -- Ngo Dinh Diem : America's miracle man in Saigon -- The last days of President Diem -- From the Tonkin Gulf to Rolling Thunder -- The American war in Vietnam -- The antiwar movement -- The Tet Offensive -- The beginning of the end -- The fall of Saigon -- Reconciliation
Summary
An account of the Vietnam War describes how it began, why it was so difficult to end, and how its tragic legacy endures today
