Steel and Blood

Steel and Blood
Author: Ha Mai Viet
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612514332

When South Vietnam was abandoned by its American allies and consequently defeated by the North Vietnamese in 1975, all its military records were lost to the enemy. This has led to a paucity of factually based analyses of the war by South Vietnamese authors. In a project lasting some ten years, and financed by his own hard-earned resources, Colonel Viet has researched, documented, and analyzed the Vietnam War from the perspective of South Vietnamese armor forces, elements in which he himself played an important role as leader, teacher, and innovator. His travels to interview hundreds of people with first-hand knowledge of these matters took him back and forth across the United States (and to Canada, France and Australia) and enabled him to piece together the story as recalled by virtually every senior South Vietnamese who was involved, along with many of lesser rank but important experience, and many Americans as well. The result is a unique and invaluable work, one recounting from the early days of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam its organization and development, its combat operations, and its interaction with American advisors and then later with deployed American units. Viet tells this story as an historian would, not glossing over the shortcomings and failures of his fellow Vietnamese soldiers (or of the Americans), but also providing definitive accounts of their successes, their innovations, their courage and determination, and the hardships experienced and survived in the course of a long, difficult, and ultimately unsuccessful struggle. In Colonel Viet's words: "In order to give the truth back to history, we did not hide anything, whether it be victory or defeat." Finally, in a very touching portion of the work, Colonel Viet memorializes his fallen comrades of the armored force and commemorates the service of all the American advisors to the armored force he was able to identify.

Vietnam Tracks

Vietnam Tracks
Author: Simon Dunstan
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-01-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781841768335

No Shining Armor

No Shining Armor
Author: Otto J. Lehrack
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

An account of the Vietnam War, as seen by the American PFCs, sergeants and platoon leaders in the rivers and jungles and trenches. Into their stories, Lehrack has woven a narrative that explains the events they describe and places them into both a historical and a political context.

Tanks in the Wire

Tanks in the Wire
Author: David B. Stockwell
Publisher: Jove
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1990-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780515103335

Armoured Warfare in the Vietnam War

Armoured Warfare in the Vietnam War
Author: Michael Green
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781593817

Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and North and South Vietnam over 30 years were far more armoured in nature than typically thought of. By skilful use of imagery and descriptive text he describes the many variants deployed and their contribution.??The ill-fated French Expeditionary Force was largely US equipped with WW2 M3 and M5 Stuart, M4 Sherman and M24 light tanks as well as armoured cars and half-tracks. Most of these eventually went to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam but were outdated and ineffective due to lack of logistics and training.??The US Army and Marine Corps build-up in the 1960s saw vast quantities of M48 Pattons, M113 APCs and many specialist variants and improvised armoured vehicles arrive in theatre. The Australians brought their British Centurion tanks. ??But it was the Russians, Chinese and North Vietnamese who won the day and their T-38-85 tanks, ZSU anti-aircraft platforms and BTR-40 and -50 swept the Communists to victory.??This fine book brings details and images of all these diverse weaponry to the reader in one volume.

Ringed in Steel

Ringed in Steel
Author: Michael D. Mahler
Publisher: Jove Books
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780515090741

During the height of the Vietnam war, the armored cavalry saw action in every hotspot on the map. From the terrifying New Year's Eve Mekong Delta ambush to the horrors of the Tet Offensive, here is Major Mahler's dramatic account of armored combat, when his cavalry squadron brought steel and death to the steaming jungles of Southeast Asia.

Seven Firefights in Vietnam

Seven Firefights in Vietnam
Author: John A. Cash
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 165
Release: 1993-07
Genre:
ISBN: 1568065639

Based on official army records, these eyewitness accounts of seven hellacious battles serve as a brief history of the Vietnam conflict. From a fierce fight on the banks of the Ia Drang River in 1965 to a 1968 gunship mission, this illustrated report conveys the heroism and horror of warfare.

Armor Operations

Armor Operations
Author: United States. Department of the Army
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1966
Genre:
ISBN: