Petersen Barry Cribbin John (8 results)

paperback in very good condition; 246 pages, b/w photos.

Hardback. 1988, First edition. A very good copy only marked by light tanning of the edges and light rubbing on the spine ends. The d/w is near fine with only superficial shelf rubbing.

First edition (a paperback original in the UK). Octavo-size, sewn-bound paperback. A tiny ownership signature on the front free endpaper, otherwise fine in wrappers as issued. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Petersen helped recruit and train Montagnard tribesmen in Darlac Province in the central highlands of South Vietnam into a special guerilla force.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 3rd edition, 1998. No marks. Nice clean used book.

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Hard cover dust wrapper, 245pp, b&w plates. Light wear to dw/board edges, page edges lightly browned; a very good copy. In 1963, Captain Arthur Barry Petersen, then a member of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, was sent to Darlac Province to recruit and train a special force of Montagnard troops which were financed and supported by the CIA. The tiger men of the Truong Son Force developed into a highly efficient guerilla unit. Working in the highlands of Vietnam was a political education for Petersen. Antagonism between the Montagnard and the new Vietnamese settlers and overlords was high. He played an active role in defusing the revolt which resulted from the simmering resentment between the two peoples and was awarded the Military Cross. Intrigue between the CIA, the French and the bordering Cambodian and Laotian nations was also a dangerous background to his work. Despite his success, however, in 1965, CIA intervention led to his removal from the highlands. This is his story of the development of a highly successful concept of warfare.…

First edition. Hardcover. Top edge just slightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine dustjacket. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Petersen helped recruit and train Montagnard tribesmen in Darlac Province in the central highlands of South Vietnam into a special guerilla force. This British edition has used the Australian dustjacket (Macmillan, published the same year).…

246 pp including index, b&w photographic plates, maps, fine copy in pictorial, limp wrappers. Long inscription by Barry Petersen - and his business card .

First Edition. Pp. x+246(last blank), 16 plates, 7 text maps, text illustration, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper, lightly scuffed; half-title page and leaves browned; Macmillan, Melbourne, 1988. First edition. *The author relates his experiences as an AATTV officer in a secret war in the central highlands of South Vietnam where he recruited and trained a local force of Montagnard tribesmen.…