| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Modern warfare |
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Modern warfare (Pen and Sword)
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface: Modern Warfare Series; Introduction; Chapter 1: Indochina: The Gathering Storm; Chapter 2: Strategic Intelligence Blunder; Chapter 3: ARVN: Too Little Too Late; Chapter 4: Rolling Thunder; Chapter 5: The Helicopter Comes of Age; Chapter 6: Here Comes the Armoured Cavalry; Chapter 7: The Siege of Khe Sanh and Lang Vei; Chapter 8: Battle of Hue; Chapter 9: Battle of Saigon; Chapter 10: Air Mobile to the Rescue; Chapter 11: Battle Won, War Lost; Epilogue; Suggested Further Reading |
| Summary |
On 30 January 1968 the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack - the Tet Offensive - across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved to be a major psychological victory for the communists - a turning point in the Vietnam War. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this photographic history of Tet - and of American involvement in the struggle against the forces of the Viet Cong and the regular North Vietnamese army - uses over 180 contemporary images, colour and black and white, to show all s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Tet Offensive, 1968.
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Tet Offensive, 1968 -- Pictorial works
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Pictorial works
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781473851382 |
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1473851386 |
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1783463627 |
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9781783463626 |
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