From the best-selling author of All Hell Let Loose comes a masterful chronicle of one of the most devastating international conflicts of the 20th century. Hastings writes with the benefit of vivid personal memories: first of reporting from the US in 1967-68, where he encountered many of the war’s decision-makers including President Lyndon Johnson, then of assignments in Indochina for newspapers and BBC TV.

A work of considerable quality, marked by a possibly unique combination of military expertise, historical grasp and journalistic skillThe Guardian

‘Engaging, provocative and insightful …Neophytes and experts alike will find Hastings’s book stimulating, informative – and above all, riveting’ New Statesman

‘Magnificent … one by one, the sacred cannons of right and left are obliterated. The war is laid bare with all its uncomfortable truths exposed’ The Times