The Battle at Ngok Tavak - Allied Valor and Defeat in Vietnam

Informationen zum Autor Australian Bruce Davies, recipient of foreign awards for valor and service in Vietnam and in 1977 appointed a Member of the British Empire for his military service, saw operational service in South Vietnam in part of every year between 1965 and 1970. He is coauthor, with Gary McKay, of The Men Who Persevered: The AATTV, the Most Highly Decorated Australian Unit of the Viet Nam War.Jack Shulimson is the former senior Vietnam historian and head of the Histories Section, U.S. Marine Corps and History Division. Klappentext The story of one key battlea microcosm of what went wrong in the war Zusammenfassung In May 1968! in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos! a Special Forces Company under the command of an Australian army captain! supported by a US Marine artillery detachment! occupied an old French fort on a hill known as Ngok Tavak. This title presents the story of one key battle - a microcosm of what went wrong in the war.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Davies, Bruce/ Shulimson Davies
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2009
• EAN: 9780896726581
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-658-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Modern Southeast Asia Series; Modern Southeast Asia; Modern Southeast Asia Series; Modern Southeast Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous