Ellsberg, a former military analyst, has said Manning's disclosures may be more significant than his own leak of a top-secret history of the Vietnam War expansion in 1971.

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War dominated 30 years of Vietnam's history last century.

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Vietnam's history is that of the struggle to retain its integrity.

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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 history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.

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Officials say it was one of the worst power cuts in Vietnam's history.

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Vietnam was one of the great foreign-policy disasters in American history.

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