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1 LE DUAN FORCES THE PACE
1 ‘IT WILL ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, WIPE OUT McGOVERN’
2 ‘WE’LL BOMB THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF THEM’
1 THE PRISONER
1 INVASION
2 ‘AH, MY COUNTRY, MY POOR COUNTRY’
1 VENGEANCE
Tonkin, 1896: entrance to the pagoda of the Great Buddha. (© BnF, département des Cartes et Plans, Société de géographie, Sg XCm 707)
Tonkin, 1908: French officers with the heads of Vietnamese suspected of poisoning French troops. (Apic/Getty Images)
1945: victims of the catastrophic famine that swept northern Vietnam. (Special Collections & University Archives Department, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, Florida)
OSS officers with Vo Nguyen Giap and Ho Chi Minh.
French troops with a Vietminh suspect. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)
French troops bring in a casualty. (©Daniel Camus/ECPAD/Défense)
Dienbienphu, November 1953. (Keystone/Staff)
Giap and Ho. (Collection Jean-Claude LABBE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Cogny, de Castries and Navarre. (Ullstein bild Dtl./Getty Images)
French officers escort a Vietminh unit into their lines following the July 1954 ceasefire. (PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
Lodge and Diem. (Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Nguyen Thuy Nga and Le Duan.
Mao Zedong and Le Duc Tho. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
Lou Conein.
Gen. Max Taylor and Gen. Paul Harkins. (Larry Burrows/Getty Images)
The Ho Chi Minh Trail. (© Le Minh Truong/Another Vietnam)
Hueys. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
Special forces camp at Plei Me under Vietcong assault in 1965. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
Walt Boomer. (Courtesy of Walter Boomer)
Tim O’Brien. (Courtesy of Tim O’Brien)
John Paul Vann and Doug Ramsey. (Courtesy of Doug Ramsey)
Bob Kerrey.
Leon Gouré. (State Archives of Florida)
Australian private Tom Blackhurst. (© Australian War Memorial C36943)
Mike Eiland. (Courtesy of Mike Eiland)
Classic combat image by Don McCullin. (© Don McCullin)
Doan Phuong Hai.
Bao Ninh. (© 1993 The Sorrow of War)
Nguyen Cong Luan.
Truong Nhu Tang.
1st Air Cav at An Thi. (AP/Shutterstock)
Maxwell Taylor and William Westmoreland. (Silverwell Films)
Duong Van Mai. (Courtesy of Duong Van Mai Elliott)
Nguyen Thi Chinh. (Courtesy of Kieu Chinh)
Vietcong doctor Dang Thuy Tram. (Courtesy of Dang Thuy Tram)
Body count. (Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Dan Hickman. (Courtesy of Dan Hickman)
Jeff Anthony. (Courtesy of Jeff Anthony)
Bob Nelson. (Courtesy of Bob Nelson)
David Rogers. (Courtesy of David Rogers)
A US Marine carries an injured woman to safety. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
