An account of the Vietnam War describes how it began, why it was so difficult to end, and how its tragic legacy endures today.

The last man to die in Vietnam--The Vietnamese: the long road to revolution-- Ho Chi Minh: the making of a revolutionary-- Ho Chi Minh meets the OSS-- The French war in Vietnam: the elephant and the tiger-- Tumbling dominoes-- Ngo Dinh Diem: America's miracle man in Saigon-- The last days of President Diem-- From the Tonkin Gulf to Rolling Thunder-- The American war in Vietnam-- The antiwar movement-- The Tet Offensive-- The beginning of the end-- The fall of Saigon-- Reconciliation.