Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, 1954-1975 by Merle L. Pribbenow
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Overview: What was for the United States a struggle against creeping Communism in Southeast Asia was for the people of North Vietnam a “great patriotic war” that saw its eventual victory against a military Goliath. The story of that conflict as seen through the eyes–and the ideology–of the North Vietnamese military offers readers a view of that era never before seen.
Victory in Vietnam is the People’s Army of Vietnam’s own account of two decades of struggle, now available for the first time in English. It is a definitive statement of the Vietnamese point of view concerning foreign intrusion in their country since before American involvement–and it reveals that many of the accepted truths in our own histories of the war are simply wrong.
This detailed account describes the ebb and flow of the war as seen from Hanoi. It discloses particularly difficult times in the PAVN’s struggle: 1955-59, when Diem almost destroyed the Communist movement in the South; 1961-62, when American helicopter assaults and M-113 armored personnel carriers inflicted serious losses on their forces; and 1966, when U.S. troop strength and air power increased dramatically. It also elaborates on the role of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the Communist effort, confirming its crucial importance and telling how the United States came close to shutting the supply line down on several occasions.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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