Interview: ‘Black Hawk Down’ Author Mark Bowden on his new book ‘Hue 1968’

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Author Mark Bowden discusses the Vietnam War and his new book Hue 1968.

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Interview: ‘Black Hawk Down’ Author Mark Bowden on his new book ‘Hue 1968’

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