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Chargement... Voices of Courage: The Battle for Khe Sanh, Vietnampar Ronald J. Drez
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"Voices of Courage: The Battle for Khe Sanh, Vietnam" tells the story of one of the most heroic efforts in American military history--a seventy-seven-day struggle in early 1968 for the remote Khe Sanh Combat Base--during which six thousand perilously isolated Marines withstood the onslaught of a superior enemy force. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The authors argue that press coverage of the seige, which saw overwhelming NVA forces surround and attempt to capture the Khe Sanh base and its outpost hills, turned this significant and successful American defensive battle into a quagmire of stalemate, leading to a disengagement politically from follow-up military attacks. President Johnson lost hope, and in turn caused the military to lose initiative in the war after such a decisive battle. 6,000 US Marines and a handful of Army and ARVN troops defended the base for 77 days with tremendous help from air and artillery bombing, along with ferocious trench grenade and firefighting, and finally forced the NVA regiments to retreat out of the area.
A stellar account of this pivotal battle, and well worth a read for any warfare history reader. The photos are priceless and numerous, and make this short work a very detailed one. Four and one-half stars. ( )