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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2018
Copyright © Max Hastings 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008132989
Ebook Edition © September 2018 ISBN: 9780008133009
Version: 2019-09-02
For my dear friend Rick Atkinson, who chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of American armies with an elegance, penetration and human sympathy that his fellow-historians strive to match.
Contents
Note on Styles Adopted in the Text
1 CLINGING TO AN EMPIRE
1 STEAMROLLER TYPES
1 WAITING FOR GIAP
1 QUIT – OR BOMB?
1 ‘A REGIME OF TERROR’
1 ‘THEY’RE GOING TO LOSE THEIR COUNTRY IF …’
7 1963: Coffins for Two Presidents
1 SMALL BATTLE, BIG STORY: AP BAC
