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Thread: BBC 4 tonight new history series on the Vietnam war.

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    BBC 4 tonight new history series on the Vietnam war.

    They are showing the first 2 episodes of this new series tonight between
    9pm and 11pm.

    It's had good reviews so may well be worth a watch if you like your history
    programmes.

    The reviews suggest it might also have a good soundtrack.

    Lets see.

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    Re: BBC 4 tonight new history series on the Vietnam war.

    cheers for that, series record on

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    In war there are no winners or losers ......only destruction

    Amazing first line from that north Vietnamese veteran

    Sums the whole thing up really ..........one million north Vietnamese killed , quarter of a million from the south

    Fecking colonial ponding about from the French and meddling from America

    All for nothing

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    Re: BBC 4 tonight new history series on the Vietnam war.

    Quote Originally Posted by BlueWales View Post
    They are showing the first 2 episodes of this new series tonight between
    9pm and 11pm.

    It's had good reviews so may well be worth a watch if you like your history
    programmes.

    The reviews suggest it might also have a good soundtrack.

    Lets see.
    Good Morning Vietnam?

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    It's already had some classic Dylan , hard rain

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    Generals gathered in Their masses
    Just like witches at black masses

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    Two hours flew by for me.

    Can't wait for the rest of the series and really the combatants
    are only warming up so far.

    The French got a right pasting and the Americans learned nothing
    from it.

    Great television.

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    looked at that. interesting and well made. Point made about using a rifle if you've got a rifle, a sword if you've got a sword or a spade if you have got a spade to fight. Seems just as relevant today as then. A van if you have got a van, etc n so on. Guerilla warfare. Nothing changes much in practice. Ideas differ as to why but method's as of to how prevail.

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    Re: BBC 4 tonight new history series on the Vietnam war.

    My uncle Trinh was one of General Giaps protégés . He's got some incredible photos of NVA and VC troops in combat and then and now photography of battle sites, Phong Nha Ke Ban. Hue across the Perfumed river and Khe San, Red Beach, the American base at Cam Rang, Long Tan etc
    All fascinating stuff from the American War

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    Thank Heavens we stayed out of it.

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    Coronation Street was good last mind.

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    Re: BBC 4 tonight new history series on the Vietnam war.

    Get it on series link.

    Once it is gone it is gone and then it'll be available like the below:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vietnam-War...ar+documentary

    70 quid!.

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    Re: BBC 4 tonight new history series on the Vietnam war.

    Quote Originally Posted by Fatty Foggon View Post
    Thank Heavens we stayed out of it.
    Hell yes. We would have been done up like a kipper same as the Americans

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    Brilliant programme. Can't wait for the other episodes.
    Spedger

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    Just starting this now. Unbelievable how this started with the Viet Minh wanted to actually be like the free Americans

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiffa View Post
    Just starting this now. Unbelievable how this started with the Viet Minh wanted to actually be like the free Americans
    It's good isn't it . The whole sorry story just seem to be one avoidable course for America. They were played like fidle's is what I took from it. Once they dug so deep they just could not stop digging. I haven't seen it all yet. Only first 2 episodes. Its seems as relevant as ever today despite happening all them years ago. It's nicely narrated and the pace is just right, the cut away interviews provide clear insight. I am enjoying it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by joecity View Post
    It's good isn't it . The whole sorry story just seem to be one avoidable course for America. They were played like fidle's is what I took from it. Once they dug so deep they just could not stop digging. I haven't seen it all yet. Only first 2 episodes. Its seems as relevant as ever today despite happening all them years ago. It's nicely narrated and the pace is just right, the cut away interviews provide clear insight. I am enjoying it.
    It's scary in the way that the misinterpretations of just a few people can escalate to the deaths of millions of people.

    Very scary.!

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    I couldn't agree more. Hope the same don't happen with Donny Thump and Kim the younger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by light up the darkness View Post
    My uncle Trinh was one of General Giaps protégés . He's got some incredible photos of NVA and VC troops in combat and then and now photography of battle sites, Phong Nha Ke Ban. Hue across the Perfumed river and Khe San, Red Beach, the American base at Cam Rang, Long Tan etc
    All fascinating stuff from the American War
    I will be visiting Hue in January , plus Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Any particular recommendations (or things to avoid)?

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    Good war museum in Ho Chi City, humid as hell in January, very modern place , quite surprising, very tech savvy

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    anyone following this, excellent series, the execution of the viet song prisoner by the south vietnamese general was a horrible thing to see but was a big factor in turning public opinion

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    Quote Originally Posted by Since62 View Post
    I will be visiting Hue in January , plus Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Any particular recommendations (or things to avoid)?
    I'm over there in January too - via Thailand and Cambodia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    I'm over there in January too - via Thailand and Cambodia.
    I am starting in Singapore (might hop on plane to Kuala Lumpur to meet Vincent Tan , then doing Vietnam and Thailand and finishing in Hong Kong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Since62 View Post
    I am starting in Singapore (might hop on plane to Kuala Lumpur to meet Vincent Tan , then doing Vietnam and Thailand and finishing in Hong Kong.
    Similar here. £268 return flight to Singapore and a £50 flight then to Thailand. £50 flight at the end to Singapore.

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    Re: BBC 4 tonight new history series on the Vietnam war.

    Quote Originally Posted by Since62 View Post
    I will be visiting Hue in January , plus Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Any particular recommendations (or things to avoid)?
    Hanoi is wonderful, full of old Viet charm, wasn't overly impressed with HCMC, but good war museum. Hue is on my list. Hanoi is cheap as chips (that and Hoi An are my fave places)

    Things to avoid.........Waiting for an opportunity to cross the road in HCMC, you will never see so many mopeds in your life, an experience in itself. Enjoy, I did !!

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