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The Great Game

Revisado: 12-25-22

Excellent book for those who are junkies on everything The Great Game. I wish more of Hopkirk's books were on Audible. His books on Central Asia, the Silk Road and The great Game are must reads for anyone interested in those subjects.

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Excellent

Revisado: 11-13-22

A true must read for like myself a junky of anything French Indochina War. There is limited books about the French Indochina war that planted the seeds to the Second Indochina War, ie US Vietnam war.
A Continent Erupts chapters on the Chinese Civil War, Indonesia and Malaysia, I struggled listening too. The chapters over the French Indochina War are top notch right up there with Benard Fall's: Street without Joy and Hell in a very Small Place and Embers of War and much better then the most recent books I've read over the same topic.

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An Unexpected Great Book

Revisado: 08-09-22

I've read Bowden before and wasnt that impressed. Hue 1968 in my opinion is hi best work. It's a Dam Good Book!

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THE BEST of BOOKS

Revisado: 07-19-22

By far my favorite book on the Cold War and the two Indochina Wars. I've read both Benard Fall books on the First Indochina war, Logevall, Sheehan, Herr, Obrien, Sir Max Hastings, Moore and Galloway, Patridge, McMasters books on the two 20th century Vietnam wars. The Best and the Brightest is my favorite.

If you are looking for a book centered on specific battles or the human element of the war Galloway and Moore's book on the la drang valley battle, We we're Soldiers or Sir Max Hasting's Vietnam an Epic Tragedy might be better books for the reader.

The Best and the Brightest is a book that explains how Cold War politics and the major decision makers, I intellectuals inside the Kennedy admi station and later LBJ'S administration made their decisions that led to the escalation of the war.

The Chapters on Lyndon B Johnson are the best, funny and sad on LBJ I've ever read.

A absolute must read for any person interested I. the Cold War and or Vietnam wars.

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Great Book

Revisado: 06-14-22

Great Book about the Vietnam War. More historical detail about firefights, battles and the politics of the war.

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impressive Research by Author

Revisado: 05-27-22

Great read about early Oklahoma and specifically Osage County history. Having lived in Oklahoma and for some time in Osage county this book hits hard. Kudos to the author for researching and writing about past history not many people know about.

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Good Information

Revisado: 03-19-22

Interesting content about an interesting person and valuable Insight in Chinese History during the first half of the 20th Century

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Surprisingly Good

Revisado: 03-06-22

I recommend this book to anyone from history nerds to history teachers like myself. Like the author most of my early education in history was from a Western European, West perspective. My interest in and about the history of Central Asian countries, the "Stans" if you will influenced the last 20 to 30 books I've read or listened to. Upon finishing The Silk Roads as one of the last available it became apparent that I saved of of the best ones available to read for the last. I enjoyed the authors sense of humor even when writing about things like the Plague, the Mongols and Huns. The Silk Roads is required reading more now then ever considering China's broadening influence in the countries that make up Central Asia.

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must read

Revisado: 02-05-22

The declassified version that came out I did not read. There were too many blank spaces for the reader to follow. Having a Psychology and History background I am so fortunate to have reconsidered the book now after the redactions were lifted. More evidence to my belief in human Psychiatry and Interrogation.

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absolute must

Revisado: 01-11-22

must read for Cold War history nerds like me and those interested in history. This book is much more then a history of a gun hit sheds light into the inner workings of the Soviet system, life under Stalin.

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