EARLY IN HIS U.S. Marine Corps career, which he concluded as a four-star general, Walt Boomer was decorated for valor in Vietnam. He distilled into three words the lesson of that debacle: 'Tell the truth.' Max Hastings, an eminent British journalist and historian, has done that in a book that is a painful but perhaps inoculating...

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