Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965 [Audiobook]

From a celebrated military historian, a powerful, “highly recommended” account of the most pivotal year of the Vietnam War—the cataclysm that “continues to haunt American politics and culture”. The Vietnam War was the greatest disaster in the history of American foreign policy. The conflict shook the nation to its foundations, exacerbating already deep cleavages in American society, and left the country baffled and ambivalent about its role in the world. Year of the Hawk is a military and political history of the war in Vietnam during 1965—the pivotal first year of the American conflict, when the United States decided to intervene directly with combat units in a struggle between communist and pro-Western forces in South Vietnam that had raged on and off for 20 years.