The Battle at Ngok Tavak: Allied Valor and Defeat in Vietnam

by Davies, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780896726581
• ISBN10: 0896726584
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr

Summary

The story of one key battlea microcosm of what went wrong in the war

Author Biography

Australian Bruce Davies, recipient of foreign awards for valor and service in Vietnam, saw operational service in South Vietnam in part of every year between 1965 and 1970. He is coauthor, with Gary McKay, of The Men Who Persevered: The AATTV, the Most Highly Decorated Australian Unit of the Viet Nam War.

Table of Contents

Maps	p. viii
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Prologue	p. xix
The Warriors
Pathways to a battle	p. 3
Into the cauldron	p. 31
Battle plans	p. 44
The warriors clash	p. 69
Aftermath	p. 106
An after-action analysis	p. 120
When the Captains and the Kings Depart
Agony	p. 127
Full accounting	p. 142
On the ground again, 1994	p. 160
To Hanoi and beyond, 1995	p. 171
Paperwork, analyses and politics	p. 192
Ngok Tavak perchance	p. 202
The final journey	p. 210
Heroism and leadership citations	p. 212
Glossary	p. 216
Notes	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 232
Index	p. 236
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