Lost Crusade: America's Secret Cambodian Mercenaries (Naval Institute Special Warfare Series) - Hardcover

Scott, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557508461 ISBN 13: 9781557508461

Verlag: Naval Institute Press, 1999

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Book by Scott Peter

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When Peter Scott began a 1968 tour in Vietnam advising ethnic Cambodian Khmer Krom paramilitaries, they shared only an earnest desire to check the spread of communism. It took nearly thirty years and a chance reunion for him to realize just how much they had become a part of him. Successfully blending intense combat narrative and stirring emotional drama, Scott vividly captures both the unique village culture of a little-known, highly spiritual people and their complex relationship with Special Forces soldiers, who found it increasingly difficult to match their charges' commitment to the costly conflict. Building on his experiences as a Phoenix Program adviser near the Cambodian border, extensive interviews with Khmer Krom survivors, hundreds of hours of research in government archives, and requests for Freedom of Information Act disclosures, Scott seamlessly reconstructs the six-thousand-strong mercenary force's final crusade against communism, beginning in their ancestral home in 1970 and ending on the U.S. West Coast in 1995.

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• Verlag: Naval Institute Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1557508461
• ISBN 13: 9781557508461
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224