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The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon : An Intelligence Officer's Memoir, 1972-1973 /
This incisive memoir is essential for better comprehending what the Vietnam experience was like for the large contingent of Americans who served there. It suggests the need for some fundamental rethinking about Vietnam--not only for the war's veterans but also for those concerned with the lesso...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface : "What did you do in the war, Daddy?"
- Prelude to the war's end : the years 1972-1973
- Nixon's "secret" plan and how I got to Vietnam
- My arrival in-country
- How the war was run : the Easter invasion
- Life in Saigon and a trip to Tuy Hoa
- Peace talks, Christmas bombing : and an Indian interlude
- I spy 1 : my time as an intelligence liaison officer
- I spy 2 : the order-of-battle conference
- Civilian life : the Kieu and Tay Ninh
- The unraveling : an overblown medal
- Conclusion : going native and going home
- Epilogue : secret mission revealed : and its liberation.