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George Black’s 8th book, “The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace and Redemption in Vietnam”, revives the vast literature on the US’s war here by recounting in comprehensive details its immensely devastative bombing and use of chemicals and slow, unending efforts at recovery.
On a visit to the former battlefield of Khe Sanh, the scene of one of the bloodiest standoffs of the Vietnam War, the only people Chuck Searcy encountered on the broad, barren field were two young boys who led him to an unexploded rocket lying by a ditch.
By George Black. Penguin Random House, New Yor. Hard cover, US$39
The last American combat soldier left Vietnam more than 50 years ago, but for hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and the Unite
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