COUNTERPART: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War
de Kiem Do and Julie Kane
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1557501815
- ISBN 13
- 9781557501813
- Librería
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. XIV, 238 pages, + 4 blank, eight pages of black-and-white photography, photographic illustrated dust jacket. The only damages to the dust jacket at the top of the backstrip section where it is slightly crumpled. . "Amid the chaotic fall of Saigon in April 1975 Capt. Kiem Do, deputy chief of staff for operations in the South Vietnamese Navy, secretly planned and quietly carried out the evacuation of thirty-five ships and some thirty thousand at-risk South Vietnamese. That disciplined retreat is only one of many little-known events of the war recalled in this revealing memoir, the first to be published in English by an officer of the South Vietnamese Navy. Also included are first person accounts of skirmishes against the Binh Xuyen pirates, life with Diem and Madame Nhu, the foiled communist car bomb attack on Saigon's naval headquarters during Tet, and the 1974 sea battle between Red China and South Vietnam. In addition to viewing particular events from a Vietnamese perspective, this book offers an intimate look at the human side of the war, at the Vietnamese culture, and at the relationship between the men of the Vietnamese Navy and their American counterparts -- specifically, the naval advisers who crossed paths with Kiem. Eyewitness to decades of turmoil, Kiem was born in Hanoi in 1933 and lived a life of adventure. By the age of thirteen he was scouting for the Viet Minh and blowing up French troop trains. By twenty-one he was in France attending the fabled naval academy in Brest as a midshipman in the brand-new Vietnamese Navy. By the 1950s he was fighting for South Vietnam against the communists -- and his own brothers. By late April 1975, as the enemy's army was closing in on Saigon, Kiem was making the decision of his life: should he try to save his navy's ships and thousands of his countrymen, or accept his counterpart's offer of plane tickets to safety for himself and his family? Coauthored by a prize- winning American poet, this book conveys what the Vietnam "experience" was really like for our often-overlooked allies." -- fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Vietnam; ISBN: 1557501815. ISBN/EAN: 9781557501813. Inventory No: 0209651. . 9781557501813
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- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0209651
- Título
- COUNTERPART: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War
- Autor
- Kiem Do and Julie Kane
- Ilustrador
- Photographic
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1557501815
- ISBN 13
- 9781557501813
- Editorial
- Naval Institute Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Annapolis, Maryland
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 South Vietnam, biography, military History Military & Warfare; Vietnam; Photographic Unbranded ISBN: 1557501815 EAN: 9781557501813 Kiem Do and Julie Kane COUNTERPART: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Vietnam;
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