Vietnam Above the Treetops

Can't remember much about it, but it's a classic.

What I recommend more than anything else ever is War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province by Jeffery Race. Race was the only civilian researcher in Vietnam and he interviewed government and military officials, VC defectors, any many others to cross-check events in building a picture of the ebb and flow of insurgency in Long An. VC makes progress, government devotes more resources, VC pull back under pressure, government withdraws resources to put them in high-threat areas, VC moves back in to fill the vacuum. He also explains the VC shadow or alternative government.

Character studies, background to steal, ideas on how to resolve higher-level efforts by the players, and more. Oh, and you'll come away with a vastly increased understanding of both the Vietnam War and the great difficulty of counterinsurgency warfare in general.

https://www.amazon.com/Comes-Long-Updated-Expanded-Revolutionary/dp/0520260171

On Jan 27, 2018 11:33, "Timothy Collinson" <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:


On 27 January 2018 at 19:24, David Shaw <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
For those who may be interested in obtaining a copy, Low Level Hell is available on Kindle for £3.49 or Kobo for either £4.99 or £4.53. 

Chickenhawk is also available for £5.49 on both platforms. (Presumably, they'll be available as B&N ebooks as well, but since they've stopped trading in the UK, I can't check.)


Thanks for checking up on that.  I will look into buying Chickenhawk.  It was one of the things I most regretted leaving on the giveaway table of the ship I'd spent two years on and where I'd originally picked up the book.  Still, if it gave subsequent readers as much interest as I took from it, it's probably better than having sat in my attic these last three decades.

Cheers

t "no, no, no, I'm not going to start on a bibliography of Vietnam helicopter pilot memoirs" c

(But my generation starship bibliography is coming along nicely...)  :-)

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