Download or read book Viet Cong Fighter written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey's study of the Viet Cong fighters of the Vietnam War (1955-1975). An enemy in the shadows, the Viet Cong was the military arm of the National Liberation Front, the Communist Party of the Republic of Vietnam. Often generally thought of as local guerrillas, they were also an important part of the North Vietnamese Army regular cadres. Packed with emotive and rare photographs, this book not only analyzes the skills and tactics of these fascinating fighters, but also takes a look at their social origins to interpret how this affected their behavior as warriors. Gordon L Rottman discusses the Viet Cong's recruitment and initial training, their unique motivation, their extensive political and psychological indoctrination, and their distinct equipment and weaponry, to provide a compelling and balanced account of these legendary guerrilla fighters.
Download or read book North Vietnamese Army Soldier 1958 75 written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commonly mistaken for the locally raised Viet Cong, the NVA was an entirely different force, conducting large-scale operations in a conventional war. Despite limited armour, artillery and air support, the NVA were an extremely politicized and professional force with strict control measures and leadership concepts. Gordon Rottman follows the fascinating life of the highly motivated infantryman from conscription and induction through training to real combat experiences. Covering the evolution of the forces from 1958 onwards, this book takes an in-depth look at the civilian and military lives of the soldiers, whilst accompanying artwork details the uniforms, weapons and equipment used by the NVA in their clash against America and her allies.
Download or read book Grab Their Belts to Fight Them written by Warren Wilkins and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, despite pronounced disadvantages in firepower and mobility, the Communist Vietnamese endeavored to crush South Vietnam and expel the American military with a strategy for a quick and decisive victory predicated not on guerrilla but big-unit war. Warren Wilkins chronicles the formation, development, and participation of the Viet Cong in the opening phase of the big-unit war and shows how the failure of that strategy profoundly influenced the decision to launch the Tet Offensive. Unlike most books on the war, this one provides an authentic account from the Communist perspective, wi ...
Download or read book Fighting the Vietnam War written by Brian Fitzgerald and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a look at the history of the Vietnam War, examining the reasons the United States became involved in the conflict, how the fighting was conducted. Includes real-life stories and photographs.
Download or read book Why the Vietcong Fought written by William D. Henderson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henderson examines the sophisticated motivation and control systems utilized by the North Vietnamese command. The book is based on communist documents and recorded interviews with captured Viet Cong.
Download or read book Inside the VC and the NVA written by Michael Lee Lanning and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1992 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles how the communists won the Vietnam War by placing their trust in the most reliable tool of warfare the individual soldier.
Download or read book The Vietnam War written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Vietnam War history examines the grueling Tet Offensive and America’s struggle against the Viet Cong with more than 180 wartime photographs. On January, 30th, 1968, the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved to be a major moral victory for the communists, and a turning point in the Vietnam War. In this photographic history, Anthony Tucker-Jones tells the story of Tet through both color and black and white images showing all sides of the conflict. The result is a vivid reassessment of this defining moment in the bitter campaign against communism in South-East Asia. The images show the conditions, the nature of the fighting, and the equipment and the weaponry used—with special focus on the battles for Hue, Khe Sanh, and Saigon. They show the impact of combat on civilian populations as their communities became battlegrounds. And they illustrate why the assault caused many at home across the US to lose faith in America’s commitment to the South.
Download or read book Blackjack 33 written by James C. Donahue and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You have to react instinctively. In this game there’s no second place, only the quick and the dead.” In Vietnam, Mobile Guerrilla Force conducted unconventional operations against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. Armed with silencer-equipped MK-II British Sten guns, M-16s, M-79s, and M-60 machine guns, the men of the Mobile Guerrilla Force operated in the steamy, triple-canopy jungle owned by the NVA and VC, destroying base camps, ambushing patrols, and gathering the intelligence that General Westmoreland desperately needed. In 1967, James Donahue was a Special Forces medic and assistant platoon leader assigned to the Mobile Guerrilla Force and their fiercely anti-Communist Cambodian freedom fighters. Their mission: to locate the 271st Main Force Viet Cong Regiment so they could be engaged and destroyed by the 1st Infantry Division. Now, with the brutal, unflinching honesty only an eye witness could possess, Donahue relives the adrenaline rush of firefights, air strikes, human wave attacks, ambushes, and attacks on enemy base camps. Following the operation the surviving Special Forces members of the Mobile Guerrilla Force were decorated by Major General John Hay, Commanding General, 1st Infantry Division.
Download or read book A Warrior Remembers written by C. W. Miles and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of the Viet Nam war, U.S. Military forces were acting as Military Advisors. This policy limited U.S. Forces to a defensive action. The policy of "NO FIRE UNLESS FIRED UPON" was causing increased loss of life and equipment to the men in the field. In the summer of 1962, then President Kennedy, requested the U.S. Army Command to establish a unit of Combat Specialists for duty in Viet Nam as forces not subject to the "NO FIRE" policy. Designated as the 1st Long Range Solo Patrol Combat Battalion. Only the best of the Army's Rangers and Special Forces would be asked to volunteer for the training. Completing the elite training program in September of 1963, the unit was deployed to Viet Nam in December and began operations on the first day. Respected by higher command for the "CAN DO" attitude, while the enemy feared their skills and ferocity in combat. They earned the nickname of: The Shadow Walkers
Download or read book The Rise of the Viet Cong written by Robert Leader and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With two Timeships hidden in fixed orbit behind Pluto in the farthest reaches of the solar system, the extinction of the human race is imminent. It is only the watchers in the Earth observation capsule who are now pleading for more time and a longer study before the final decision is made. Reluctantly three more mind melts are sanctioned. The first new contact is with Nguyan Nam Kim who is taken as a boy from his home village and indoctrinated in the guerrilla camps in the jungles. Nam Kim grows from a hit and run fighter engaging in ambush and night attacks, to a seasoned veteran of the Viet Cong. The climax comes in the initially victorious battle for Hue, the old imperial capital on the Perfume River, followed by the merciless US counter-attack which drove the Viet Cong out of the city.
Download or read book Why Didn t You Get Me Out written by Frank Anton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American pilot Frank Anton was a prisoner of the Viet Cong in the jungles of Vietnam for five years--longer than any other P.O.W. who survived. The hope of rescue sustained him for much of that time. After the war, however, Anton learned that military intelligence had known where he was all along, but gave orders not to expedite his rescue. Now, after 20 years of silence about the matter, Anton has decided to tell his story. Photos.
Download or read book Tears of a Patriot written by John E. Siipola and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Vietnam veterans who survived combat were very happy to come home after their tour of duty, but they didnt expect to be met with derision by some factions for serving their country. Jack Stryker is beginning his junior year football season at the University of Texas in 1961. He is the descendant of a World War II fighter pilot who can trace his ancestry to a fur trader and a Shoshone maiden in the Wyoming mountains. After graduating from college where he participated in Navy ROTC, Stryker is commissioned as an ensign in the navy with every intention of becoming a career officer. After a year in an administrative position, Ensign Stryker is bored, applies for, and is accepted into a new special warfare group. He trains to become a Navy SEAL. After rigorous training, Jack is shipped out to Vietnam. His platoon is followed through three deployments and the horrific images of duty in the Mekong Delta, the vile swamp called the Rung Sat. Jack and his platoon became feared predators in the swamp, only to return home to a country that dishonored and disrespected them.
Download or read book The War in South Vietnam written by John Schlight and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 1988 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Air Force in Southeast Asia. Documents the Air Force's support of the ground war in South Vietnam from 1965 to early 1968. Includes sections on the air campaign conducted during the Communists' siege of the Marine camp of Khe Sanh. Also contains several appendices, a glossary, and bibliographical notes.
Download or read book Fathers and Daughters written by Le Ly Hayslip and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly was one of those children. In this harrowing selection from the memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down is a poignant picture of Vietnam, then and now, and of a courageous woman who experienced the true horror of the Vietnam War—and survived to tell her unforgettable story. A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.
Download or read book Strategic Inventions of the Vietnam War written by Cathleen Small and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War was a conflict that divided many people and brought changes to America. It spanned from the 1950s to the 1970s and saw many new and improved technologies developamong them napalm, attack helicopters, and TV journalism. These technologies ultimately changed the way people viewed warfare. This is the story of how the war started, what its impact was, and how these technologies changed the face of a nation.
Download or read book Air War Over South Vietnam 1968 1975 written by Bernard C. Nalty and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Once a Warrior King written by David Donovan and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Was a young American soldier -- and the most powerful man in a remote rural District of Vietnam. In the spring of 1969, First Lieutenant David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam to work as military advisor with village chiefs and local militia to win the war. But as he was the highest-ranking person in the entire district, his life there was far more complex than anyone could have imagined. This is Donovan's gripping account of combat missions and night ambushes in the swamps and jungles of the Delta...his heartrending tale of personal involvement with the culture and families in his charge...his humane introspection on his awesome responsibility as both warrior and king...his stark reflections on the changes he saw in himself and his country upon his return to the U.S.
