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How Vietnam Was Lost

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War.

Whilst a US battalion unwittingly marched into a Viet Cong ambush which killed 61 young men, half a world away angry students at the University of Wisconsin were protesting the presence of Dow Chemical recruiters on campus. Show less

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Director:
Robby Kenner

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