Ellsberg, a former military analyst, has said Manning's disclosures may be more significant than his own leak of a top-secret historyof the Vietnam War expansion in 1971.
Recapitulating the many pictures made in the forties and fifties which portrayed the Americans as good and simple people fighting for a just cause, Wallace and Gibson have taken Vietnam out of history essentially, they have assimilated it into the Second World War.
History: "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " by Fredrik Logevall (Random House), a balanced, deeply researched historyof how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.