Twenty Days In May Vietnam 1968
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Twenty Days In May Vietnam 1968
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Release Date : 2008-12-08
Twenty Days In May Vietnam 1968 written by and has been published by PublishAmerica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Nine Days In May
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Author : Warren K. Wilkins
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2017-06-01
Nine Days In May written by Warren K. Wilkins and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-01 with History categories.
Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call “the nine days in May border battles.” Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Part of Operation Francis Marion, they took place in the Ia Tchar Valley and the remote jungle west of Pleiku. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail. This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. When the guns finally fell silent, an unheralded American brigade received a Presidential Unit Citation and earned three of the twelve Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam.
Twelve Days In May
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Author : Jerald W. Berry
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010
Twelve Days In May written by Jerald W. Berry and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
To preserve the gallantry of these men, author Jerald W. Berry spent three years of extensive investigation and personal interviews. He now presents this comprehensive research through this book. Hundreds of interviews from those who actually were insideCambodia comprise the heart of this book. It relives the firsthand accounts of those soldiers who witnessed history through their own eyes. To add a more vivid picture of the era that, that are forty-year-old photographs that belong to the infantrymen who lived the "twelve days in May" inside Cambodia.--From publisher description.
Twenty Years And Twenty Days
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Author : Cao Kỳ Nguyễn
language : en
Publisher: Scarborough House
Release Date : 1976
Twenty Years And Twenty Days written by Cao Kỳ Nguyễn and has been published by Scarborough House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book tells how and why America lost its first war against China and the Soviet Union.
First Infantry Division In Vietnam 1 May 1967 31 December 1 1968
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Author : United States. Army. 1st Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
First Infantry Division In Vietnam 1 May 1967 31 December 1 1968 written by United States. Army. 1st Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
Turning Point 1967 1968
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Author : Adrian George Traas
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Release Date : 2017
Turning Point 1967 1968 written by Adrian George Traas and has been published by Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Government publications z United States categories.
The Twenty Five Year Century
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Author : Quang Thi Lâm
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2001
The Twenty Five Year Century written by Quang Thi Lâm and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For Victor Hugo, the nineteenth century could be remembered by only its first two years, which established peace in Europe and France's supremacy on the continent. For General Lam Quang Thi, the twentieth century had only twenty-five years: from 1950 to 1975, during which the Republic of Vietnam and its Army grew up and collapsed with the fall of Saigon. This is the story of those twenty-five years. General Thi fought in the Indochina War as a battery commander on the side of the French. When Viet Minh aggression began after the Geneva Accords, he served in the nascent Vietnamese National Army, and his career covers this army's entire lifespan. He was deputy commander of the 7th Infantry Division, and in 1965 he assumed command of the 9th Infantry Division. In 1966, at the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest generals in the Vietnamese Army. He participated in the Tet Offensive before being removed from the front lines for political reasons. When North Vietnam launched the 1972 Great Offensive, he was brought back to the field and eventually promoted to commander of an Army Corps Task Force along the Demilitarized Zone. With the fall of Saigon, he left Vietnam and emigrated to the United States. Like his tactics during battle, General Thi pulls no punches in his denunciation of the various regimes of the Republic, and complacency and arrogance toward Vietnam in the policies of both France and the United States. Without lapsing into bitterness, this is finally a tribute to the soldiers who fell on behalf of a good cause.
363 Days In Vietnam
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Author : Michael Stuart Baskin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-21
363 Days In Vietnam written by Michael Stuart Baskin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with categories.
Most of what the average person knows about the Vietnam War is gleaned from movies, TV dramas and documentaries. Almost every one of those revolves around the infantry. What everybody doesn't know is that Less than 20% of the guys in Vietnam were in the infantry. The +80% of us that weren't 'grunts' have ALL kinds of stories to tell even if they're not 'war' stories, per se. When I considered writing my recollections of Vietnam, I launched into it and like a line of dominoes, one story after the other seemed to fall from my memory onto the page. I've tried to keep the prose real without being vulgar. Some events involve themes that include sex, drugs and gore. It gets very personal, somewhat controversial and, at times, there's no way to avoid how gruesome it was. This is what I experienced - it's true. Nothing is added, nothing is invented. My story may seem unusual, but there were tens of thousands of non-infantry, Vietnam vets who confronted similar situations, challenges, screw-ups and disasters without recognition or making the effort to write them down.
Looking Back On The Vietnam War
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Author : Brenda M. Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-17
Looking Back On The Vietnam War written by Brenda M. Boyle and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-17 with History categories.
More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of Vietnam. Looking Back on the Vietnam War brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the war’s psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange. By putting these pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies. Though they come from diverse scholarly backgrounds, ranging from anthropology to film studies, the contributors are united in their commitment to original research. Whether exploring rare archives or engaging in extensive interviews, they voice perspectives that have been excluded from standard historical accounts. Looking Back on the Vietnam War thus embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why.
Twelve And Twenty A Vietnam War Novel
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Author : James Toomey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09
Twelve And Twenty A Vietnam War Novel written by James Toomey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09 with Fiction categories.
The title connotes the tour of duty for a US Marine in Vietnam, for twelve months and twenty days. PFC Sean P. O'Hara embarks upon an adventure that would change his life forever. Twelve and Twenty is a riveting novel that takes place in the jungles of Southeast Asia and the quagmire of the Vietnam War. In a graphic and haunting naturalistic style, James Toomey adroitly tells the story of the madness of war and the paradox of valor in the early summer of 1968 in the Republic of Vietnam. With great skill, Colonel Toomey has created a page-turner. It reveals the arduous and sometimes horrific life of an infantry marine serving his country in a sustained and unpopular ground war. That war changed the country, and that change was not for the better. The book honestly and graphically presents the minute-to-minute, day-to-day, week-to-week dichotomy of insipid drudgery and violent combat that almost instantaneously transforms an Ivy League candidate into a highly trained, coldhearted killing machine. The psychological scars of these hellacious 385 days in 1968 and 1969 will never go away. O'Hara, during the course of his tour, is given a ribald and Mephistophelian education in life that he never would receive at Harvard. A macabre curriculum that included the sight of his fellow marines blown to bits; innocent indigenous villagers tortured by their own countrymen; commercial lust sold by adolescent prostitutes in Bangkok, Thailand. Lastly the ultimate, final examination, which is the manic-depressive phenomenon of an otherwise kind and gentle person having to kill other human beings to survive. O'Hara passed the exam physically but not mentally, and he will never be the same again! There is no glory in war, only heartache and despair.