![]() Almost none of the other myriad facts on dozens of subjects, marshaled by the prolific military historians Dunnigan and Nofi (Victory at Sea: World War II in the Pacific, 1995, etc.), are bona fide secrets. ![]() Among the few facts that conceivably fit the title's sensational promise are that 30 percent of the Americans who died in the war were Roman Cat holics that ``underage boys'' enlisted in the US military to fight in the war that some renegade Japanese troops and Nazi Germans fought briefly with the Viet Minh against the French in the years following WWII and that the communist side suffered from desertion and draft-dodging. Perhaps a better title for this wide-ranging book might be An Enormous Number of Vietnam War Facts and Figures Covering Many Different Aspec ts of the War, Some of Which Are Not Widely Known, and Many of Which Are Readily Available in Dozens of Books. Precious few secrets are revealed in this densely scattershot look at multiple aspects of the Vietnam War. ![]()
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