Inside the VC and the Nva: The Real Story of North Vietnam's Armed Force - Softcover

Lanning, Michael Lee; Cragg, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804105006 ISBN 13: 9780804105002

Publisher: Ivy Books,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

An account of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the North Vietnamese uses personal diaries, letters, and the revelations of the Vietnam government to show how, despite American technological superiority, the North Vietnamese won the war. Original.

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Review:

... blends history, eyewitness accounts, and data from a RAND Corporation study and other military sources to draw an intimate, candid portrait of the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army that is unexpected and often startling.... An absolute necessity for Vietnamese studies collections and a revealing document for anyone connected with this conflict. - Library Journal

About the Author:

MICHAEL LEE LANNING, a retired lieutenant colonel who served three tours of duty in Vietnam, is the author of sixteen nonfiction books on military history. Texas A&M University Press has reissued two of them, The Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader's Journal of Vietnam and Vietnam, 1969-1970: A Company Commander's Journal. He lives in Crystal Beach, Texas. DAN CRAGG enlisted in the army in 1958 and served five years as an infantryman in Vietnam. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen military books, fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Prince George's County, Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivy Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0804105006
• ISBN 13: 9780804105002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 95