Josh Johnson’s Compendium

Total War for the fledgling Democratic Republic of Vietnam means civilian suffering, economic disaster, communist consolidation, atomic scares, and lingering hope that the tiger can wear down the elephant. For the French, it means coming face to face with their own mortality.
 
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France's colony in Indochina ignites in a revolutionary inferno, led by the enigmatic figure of Ho Chi Minh. As the flames spread, Western powers must decide how far they are willing to go to stamp out the communist fire.
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A Norwegian fugitive finds himself embroiled in a Byzantine political coup, and leaves his fingerprints permanently etched throughout the bloody proceedings.
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In 1066, the issue of Anglo-Saxon royal succession boils over into outright war. But as William the Conqueror's Normans invade England from the south, Harald Hardrada's Norwegians sweep down from the north.
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