Hunting the Viet Cong. Volume 2, The fall of Diem and the collapse of the strategic hamlets, 1961-1964 /
The second volume in this series, Hunting the Viet Cong: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets, 1961-64 looks at why the strategy ultimately failed. Focussing on events in South Vietnam, the book exposes Viet Cong atrocities, South Vietnamese corruption and American military and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Warwick, England :
Helion & Company Limited,
[2023]
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| Series: | Asia@War ;
v. 41. |
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| Summary: | The second volume in this series, Hunting the Viet Cong: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets, 1961-64 looks at why the strategy ultimately failed. Focussing on events in South Vietnam, the book exposes Viet Cong atrocities, South Vietnamese corruption and American military and political negligence. The book reveals just how violent and aggressive the Viet Cong were towards their own people. Fear was a weapon of choice: beheading civilians, mutilating children and destroying schools and hospitals were all legitimate tactics in the VC toolbox. The book also explains how a strategy designed to protect Vietnamese villagers made them easy targets for violent guerrillas. Finally, it reveals that there were many decent Americans in South Vietnam who understood the nation and its people but who were constantly ignored by those in power. -- |
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| Item Description: | Title from cover. |
| Physical Description: | 88 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781804510186 1804510181 |