America's Last Vietnam Battle: Halting Hanoi's 1972 Easter Offensive (Modern War Studies)
by Dale Andrade
Sales Rank: 741009
List Price: $24.95 $22.45At Amazon on 10-28-2008
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: University Press Of Kansas October 1, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0700611312
ISBN-13: 978-0700611317
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.9 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
"A fascinating read and outstanding contribution." -- Infantry Magazine
"A masterful account of the last great engagement of the Vietnam War in which American forces participated." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Andradé gives us the full panorama of this important campaign and does it in a style of classic military history." -- Journal of Military History
"Andradé's book on this brutal and bloody struggle fills an important gap in the history of the Vietnam War." -- Foreign Affairs
"One of the best books on the Vietnam War." -- Washington Post Book World
"The NVA soldiers' war was also terrible, and Andradé's story of it is long overdue." -- Military Review
Product Description
In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive military offensive designed to deliver the coup de grâce to South Vietnam and its rapidly disengaging American ally. But an over-confident Hanoi misjudged its opponents who, led by American military advisers and backed by American airpower, were able to hold off the North's onslaught in what became the biggest battle of a very long war.
Dale Andradé rescues this epic engagement from its previous neglect to tell a riveting tale of heroism against great odds. Originally published in cloth in 1995 as Trial by Fire and drawing upon recent Vietnamese-language sources, this new paperback edition will finally allow a true classic on the war to reach the wide readership it deserves.
This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.
America's Last Vietnam Battle: Halting Hanoi's 1972 Easter Offensive (Modern War Studies)
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