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Over a ten-year period, Burns and Novick created this exceptional historical series, which begins (episodes 1-2) with a sweeping and fascinating overview of world politics and Vietnamese nationalism from the 1858 French colonization of Indo-China through the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. It illustrates the role of the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations in shoring up the South Vietnamese government and military. By 1963, 16,000 U.S. military advisors were in South Vietnam. Episodes 3-8 show the increasing U.S. military presence, troop escalation, and bombings, from the landing of personnel at DaNang through the Tet Offen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More