Vietnam War Battles & Leaders

by Murray, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780756607708
• ISBN10: 0756607701
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-29
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.

Summary

Presents a history of the Vietnam War told through descriptions of the campaign battles and biographies of leaders on both sides.

Table of Contents

FRENCH INDOCHINA CONFLICT	6	(8)
America's War in Indochina	8	(2)
Vietnam War Chronology	10	(2)
Theater of War 1946-75	12	(2)
1946-54: VIETNAM'S WARRIOR SPIRIT DEFEATS FRANCE	14	(6)
Vietminh Insurgency	16	(2)
Fall of Dien Bien Phu	18	(2)
1955-64: VIETNAM'S WAR BECOMES AN AMERICAN CONFLICT	20	(10)
The Advisory Phase	22	(2)
Battle of Ap Bac	24	(2)
Ho Chi Minh Trail	26	(2)
Gulf of Tonkin Incidents	28	(2)
1965: AMERICA HOPES FOR QUICK VICTORY	30	(12)
Operation Rolling Thunder	32	(2)
Operation Starlite	34	(2)
Operation Market Time	36	(2)
Ia Drang Campaign	38	(2)
LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany	40	(2)
1966: BUILDING BASES, WINNING TRUST	42	(4)
Long Tan	44	(1)
Operation Attleboro	45	(1)
1967: U.S. CASUALTIES MOUNT BOMBING INTENSIFIES	46	(8)
Operation Bolo	48	(2)
Operation Cedar Falls	50	(1)
Operation Junction City	51	(1)
Dak To	52	(2)
1968: THE WAR REACHES A TURNING POINT	54	(12)
Tet Offensive	56	(2)
Siege of Hué	58	(2)
Battle for Saigon	60	(2)
Siege of Khe Sanh	62	(2)
Phoenix Program	64	(2)
1969: SECRET BOMBINGS AND MASSACRE AT MY LAI	66	(4)
Operation Menu	68	(1)
Hamburger Hill	69	(1)
1970-71: VIETNAMIZATION AND CAMBODIAN INVASION	70	(6)
Invasion of Cambodia	72	(2)
Operation Lam Son 719	74	(2)
1972-73: NVA OFFENSIVE AND B-52s FOR PEACE	76	(8)
Eastertide Offensives	78	(2)
An Loc	80	(2)
Operation Linebacker I and II	82	(2)
1974-75: THIRD INDOCHINA WAR, FALL OF SOUTH VIETNAM	84	(8)
Phuoc Long	86	(2)
Ho Chi Minh Campaign	88	(2)
Fall of Saigon	90	(2)
More Soldiers and Politicians	92	(3)
Index	95	(1)
Acknowledgments	96