Kontum [electronic resource] : the battle to save South Vietnam / Thomas P. McKenna.
Material type: TextSeries: Battles and campaigns (Lexington, Ky.) | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 344 p., [16] p. of plates :) ill., mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813134017
- 959.704/342 22
- DS557.8.K56 M35 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-324) and index.
Autumn in the highlands, 1971 -- Fighting in Phu Nhon -- A hundred tons of bombs -- The looming threat -- The year of the rat -- The North Vietnamese invasion -- Attacking in An Khe Pass -- Our firebases fall -- The collapse at Tan Canh -- A debacle at Dak To -- A New team for the defense -- Closing in on Kontum -- Cut off and surrounded -- Tanks attacking! -- Struggling to hold it together -- "Brother, this is going to be it!" -- "You are going to be overrun" -- The dirty job of killing -- All over but the shooting? -- Finishing the job.
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