| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
the battle to save South Vietclm |
| Author: |
McKennaThomas P., 1930- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Lexington |
| Published: |
University Press of Kentucky; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 344 p., [16] p. of plates)ill., maps. : |
| Series: |
Battles and clmpaigns |
| Subject: |
Kontum, Battle of, Kon Tum, Vietclm, 1972 - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813134017/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-324) and index |
| ISBN: |
9780813134017electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813133980hbk. |
| ISBN: |
081313398Xhbk. |
| ISBN: |
0813134013ebook |
| Content Note: |
Autumn in the highlands, 1971 -- Fighting in Phu Nhon -- A hundred tons of bombs -- The looming threat -- The year of the rat -- The North Vietclmese invasion -- Attacking in An Khe Pass -- Ourfirebases fall -- The collapse at Tan Canh -- A debacle at Dak To -- A New team for thedefense -- Closing in on Kontum -- Cut off and surrounded -- Tanks attacking! -- Struggling to hold it together -- "Brother, this is going tobe it!" -- "You are going to be overrun" -- The dirty job of killing --All over but the shooting? -- Finishing the job |