Vietnam War

Peter Mayhew, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill, on-set of the film Star Wars

Star Wars: why did the film make history?

US soldiers in Vietnam

From the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and Iraq: a history of war trauma

Paratroopers over Dien Bien Phu

Dien Bien Phu: the battle that split Vietnam

Combat helicopters fly over US troops during a search and destroy mission, South Vietnam. Despite their military might, argues Max Hastings, the Americans were doomed to fail during the Vietnam War. (Photo by Patrick Christain/Getty Images)

Max Hastings on Vietnam

The Vietnam War podcast

The Vietnam War on film

View of Halong Bay taken from the top of an island. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Vietnam

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

Britain at war over Vietnam

A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

First World War

Pain through the prism of war

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The Boys of ’67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam