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Hunting the Viet Cong. Volume 2, The fall of Diem and the collapse of the strategic hamlets, 1961-1964 /

-- Fall of Diem and the collapse of the strategic hamlets, 1961-1964

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The second volume in this series, Hunting the Viet Cong: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets, 1961-64 looks at why the strategy ultimately failed. Focussing on events in South Vietnam, the book exposes Viet Cong atrocities, South Vietnamese corruption and American military and political negligence. The book reveals just how violent and aggressive the Viet Cong were towards their own people. Fear was a weapon of choice: beheading civilians, mutilating children and destroying schools and hospitals were all legitimate tactics in the VC toolbox. The book also explains how a strategy designed to protect Vietnamese villagers made them easy targets for violent guerrillas. Finally, it reveals that there were many decent Americans in South Vietnam who understood the nation and its people but who were constantly ignored by those in power. -- Amazon.com

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Title

Hunting the Viet Cong. Volume 2, The fall of Diem and the collapse of the strategic hamlets, 1961-1964 / -- Fall of Diem and the collapse of the strategic hamlets, 1961-1964

Call No

DS557.7 .P66 2023

Authors

Poole, Darren

Subjects

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Underground movements.
Counterinsurgency--Vietnam--History--20th century.
United States--History, Military--20th century.

Language

English

Published

Warwick, England : Helion & Company Limited, [2023]

Publication Desc

88 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ;