The Battle at Ngok Tavak: Allied Valor and Defeat in Vietnam (Modern Southeast Asia Series) - Softcover

Davies, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896726584 ISBN 13: 9780896726581

Verlag: TEXAS TECH UNIV PR, 2009

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Davies has brought the ferocity of this battle to life, but in a manner in which we eventually stop and realise the absolute futility of war and the awesome price that is paid for it. --Gary McKay, Queensland (Australia) Courier Mail

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In May 1968, in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos, a Special Forces Company under the command of an Australian army captain, supported by a U.S. Marine artillery detachment, occupied an old French fort on a hill known as Ngok Tavak. Though the ensuing battle and subsequent retreat appeared relatively insignificant, they proved to have much wider implications. Nearly every major force in South Vietnam was involved, and the battles bloody ending came to stand as a microcosm of what went wrong in the war. In its wake Ngok Tavak left issues that cried out for resolution for decades afterwards. After interviewing battle survivors and American soldiers families, and searching through accounts from official reports that included Vietnamese documents, eyewitness statements, and war diaries, Bruce Davies pieces together the evidence that puts Ngok Tavak in context and addresses questions that still haunt those involved.

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• Verlag: TEXAS TECH UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0896726584
• ISBN 13: 9780896726581
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242