Its best feature was giving even coverage to the view from North Vietnam, narrating their strategic choices, restoring their agency and status as an active protagonist, rather than just the faceless, inexorable enemy to the US.
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pimped Max Hastings here a few times because I liked how his books (particularly the two on the endgame in the pacific and europe) really dove into the socioeconomic side of the war and just the overall fucking tragedy of it all