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Author | : Keith William Nolan |
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Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
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From the author of The Battle for Saigon and The Magnificent Bastards comes this first full-scale account of one of the U.S. Army's darkest moments in Vietnam. Includes eight pages of photos.
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
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Author | : Quang Thi Lâm |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574411438 |
For Victor Hugo, the nineteenth century could be remembered by only its first two years, which established peace in Europe and France's supremacy on the continent. For General Lam Quang Thi, the twentieth century had only twenty-five years: from 1950 to 1975, during which the Republic of Vietnam and its Army grew up and collapsed with the fall of Saigon. This is the story of those twenty-five years. General Thi fought in the Indochina War as a battery commander on the side of the French. When Viet Minh aggression began after the Geneva Accords, he served in the nascent Vietnamese National Army, and his career covers this army's entire lifespan. He was deputy commander of the 7th Infantry Division, and in 1965 he assumed command of the 9th Infantry Division. In 1966, at the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest generals in the Vietnamese Army. He participated in the Tet Offensive before being removed from the front lines for political reasons. When North Vietnam launched the 1972 Great Offensive, he was brought back to the field and eventually promoted to commander of an Army Corps Task Force along the Demilitarized Zone. With the fall of Saigon, he left Vietnam and emigrated to the United States. Like his tactics during battle, General Thi pulls no punches in his denunciation of the various regimes of the Republic, and complacency and arrogance toward Vietnam in the policies of both France and the United States. Without lapsing into bitterness, this is finally a tribute to the soldiers who fell on behalf of a good cause.
Author | : Thomas William John Connolly |
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Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1857 |
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Author | : Roger Helle |
Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2019-01-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1641919183 |
Ron entered the long hospital corridor looking for his brother Roger. After searching the ward unsuccessfully, he approached a doctor standing by the bed of a patient. "I'm Sergeant Helle's brother," he said. "How is he?" The doctor looked at Ron and said, "I'm sorry, son, but your brother is going to die. There's nothing else we can do." Just a few beds away, drifting in and out of consciousness, Roger heard the doctor's death sentence. Not yet twenty-three years old, he felt fear grip his heart in a way he had not even experienced on the battlefield. That fear caused him to do something he had never done before. Roger silently prayed, "God, if there is a God, if you let me live, I'll do anything you want!" Then he slipped mercifully back into a drug-induced sleep. That prayer would be answered in a way Roger could never have imagined, but only after years of nightmares, alcohol, and tortured emotional battles. Peace did come at last as Roger not only made peace with Vietnam, but the emotional pain of his past as well. Roger and Shirley Helle live in Chattanooga Tennessee. They retired from Teen Challenge in 2017 after 40 years of ministry. The Helle's continue to travel across the country speaking and ministering.
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Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
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Author | : T.W.J. Connolly |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2023-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3375162693 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
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Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Infantry |
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Author | : Benjamin L. Harrison |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : 0595327303 |
HELL ON A HILL TOP-for four months in 1970, Hell raged on the hill tops of Ripcord, 805, 902 and 1000, all just east of the A Shau Valley. HELL ON A HILL TOP Instead of backing away from the fight, the North Vietnamese mortar, recoilless rifle, heavy machine gun, sapper and regular infantry attacks increased. The last offensive around Ripcord was starting to look like the last stand. Unwilling to keep American soldiers at high risk at this stage of the war; Ripcord was evacuated on 23 July. The battle went unnoticed for 30 years until Keith Nolan's book, RIPCORD, was published. As powerful and gripping as was the story of great leadership and courageous fighting by our soldiers, the magnitude of the enemy force still remained unknown. The author, the 3rd Brigade commander during the siege and evacuation, made trips to Vietnam in 2001 and 2004 and interviewed the 324B Division Commander whose first-ever division sole mission, was to destroy Firebase Ripcord. The full story is now told.
Author | : Neil D. Orpen |
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Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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