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Over the Hải Vân Pass from Đà Nẵng to the imperial city: Champa's maritime kingdoms, the French siege of Tourane, the Nguyễn lords' rise, and the 1968 siege of Huế. It ends inside the Purple Forbidden City, the dynasty's private world within walls.
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Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.