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Mentioned as the literary source that Apocalypse Now is based on - described as 'Conrad's story of Belgian imperialism in the Congo' and used to discuss the themes of imperial adventures and moral corruption

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Referenced alongside Tim O'Brien as an author of books about Vietnam that American listeners may have read, in the context of discussing how Vietnam War literature focuses on the American experience

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A Marine guarding the access point to the embassy roof was reading 'a battered paperback that's called the fall of Rome' while waiting for evacuation during the fall of Saigon