In April of 1975, North Vietnamese soldiers manning Soviet tanks rolled into Saigon ... In the book’s epilogue, Bowden writes, “the battle of Hue and the entire Vietnam War seem a tragic ...
In 1790, the founder of the Nguyen Dynasty which ruled Vietnam into the 20th century built a defensive citadel in what is now downtown Saigon ... twenty years of war. His ruthless determinism ...
A Cold War Thriller. By Bill Rapp/Coffeetown Press. Reviewed by Kenneth Dekleva. The Reviewer – Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medic ...
The first full-scale battle of the war was The ... the jungles around the South’s captial, Saigon. What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Vietnam: The War That Changed America is a somewhat-condensed ...
After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.