His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war “unwinnable.”
Days after the storm made landfall, northern Vietnam was being battered by incessant rain. A landslide buried a whole village in a mountainous province.
At least four people have died and thousands have been evacuated after Typhoon Yagi, one of the strongest storms to hit northern Vietnam, made landfall.