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Vietnam war

Mark Atwood Lawrence responds to readers’ questions about the United States’ failure to stem the advance of communism in Vietnam. (Image by Getty Images)
20th Century

The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know

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

Star Wars: why did the film make history?

American soldiers in Vietnam
20th Century

The war that America could never win? Opposition, dissent and the Vietnam War

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Two American soldiers wait for the second wave of combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division during Operation Pershing during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War defined America in the second half of the 20th century. (Photo by Patrick Christain/Getty Images)
20th Century

Your guide to the Vietnam War – plus 7 surprising facts you might not know

US soldiers in Vietnam
20th Century

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

Paratroopers over Dien Bien Phu
20th Century

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)
20th Century

Max Hastings on Vietnam

Crowds march through the streets of Chicago to hear Martin Luther King speak at the Illinois Rally for Civil Right on 21 June 1964
Period

Seymour Hersh on the US civil rights movement and the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War podcast
20th Century

The Vietnam War on film

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General Modern

My favourite place: Vietnam

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square
20th Century

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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