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Book Review: 'The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam: 1945-1975'

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(C) 1981 St. Martin's Press. Book cover photo: Goodreads In the early 1980s, back when I was in high school, I developed an interest in the Vietnam War, a conflict that took place when I was too young to understand but was a shadowy presence in everyone's lives in the 1960s and 1970s.  Around the same time that I was navigating the hallways of my senior high school's campus as a wide-eyed sophomore, Canadian writer-producer Michael Maclear's 13-part documentary series, Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War , was aired in syndication in the U.S. Written by Peter Arnett and narrated by actor Richard Basehart ( Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ), this series - which originally aired on Canadian television in 26 half-hour episodes but was presented in 13 one-hour installments in U.S. television markets - was the first in-depth examination of what was, until the post-September 11, 2001 war in Afghanistan, America's longest war.  Like many documentaries of this genre