Just finished Max Hasting's "Vietnam; An Epic history of a tragic war"
From the early years and rise of Ho Chi Minh, and the ousting of the colonial French, through to the ill fated and vast military engagement of the US. and the eventual fall of Saigon. This book details the whole madness and badness from all sides. 58,000 US Dead, with 40 Vietnamese killed for every 1 of the US.....Not 4, 40.
I read this statistic recently: Of the 150,000 years of Humans living on Earth, 95% had passed before the appearance of War.
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