Inside The VC And The NVA - The Real Story of North Vietnam's Armed Forces

Informationen zum Autor MICHAEL LEE LANNING, a retired lieutenant colonel who served three tours of duty in Vietnam, is the author of sixteen nonfiction books on military history. Texas A&M University Press has reissued two of them, The Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader's Journal of Vietnam and Vietnam, 1969-1970: A Company Commander's Journal. He lives in Crystal Beach, Texas.DAN CRAGG enlisted in the army in 1958 and served five years as an infantryman in Vietnam. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen military books, fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Prince George's County, Maryland. Klappentext "An intimate, candid portrait of the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army...An absolute necessity for Vietnamese-studies collections."During the war in Vietnam, the North Vietnamese communists had to place their trust in the oldest and most reliable tool of warfare: the individual soldier; America believed that firepower, lgoistics, and technology would be sufificent for victory. The North Vietnamese won. INSIDE THE VC AND THE NVA, written by two veterans with six-and-a-half years combined experience, shows how. A Dual Main Selection of the Military Book Club Zusammenfassung If the costs of the Vietnam War were great to Americans and staggering to the South Vietnamese! they were even worse for the North. Based on interviews! soldiers' diaries! letters! and government documents! this book provides an account of the war that our opponents fought and the men who fought it.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dan Cragg, Michael Lee Lanning, Michael Lee/ Cragg Lanning
• Verlag: Texas A&M University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.07.2008
• EAN: 9781603440592
• ISBN: 978-1-60344-059-2
• Seiten: 332
• Abmessung: 127 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series; Texas A&m University Military; Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series; Texas A&m University Military
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges