Stephen E. Atkins

Writing the War

My Ten Months in the Jungles, Streets and Paddies of South Vietnam, 1968

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author of this Vietnam War memoir was drafted in November 1966 just before completion of his Ph.D. work in French history and entered the army, age 26, in February 1967. He arrived in Vietnam in April 1968. Serving as both pointman and sniper, he experienced six weeks of frontline duty, averaging a firefight each week with heavy casualties. With his advanced degree and a $2.50 case of beer for a bribe, he then transferred to the 19th Military History Detachment and spent the remainder of his tour of duty traveling the Mekong Delta, Plain of Reeds, and areas near Saigon. His memoir is the result of a tour of intense fighting, careful documentation, and an illicit diary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780786442720
• ISBN-10: 0786442727
• Artikelnr.: 25906697

Autorenporträt

Stephen E. Atkins is a librarian and historian curator for French Collections in Cushing Library at Texas A&M University Libraries.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction     
1. Background and Training for the Vietnam War     
2. First Weeks in South Vietnam     
3. First Blooding     
4. Operations in the First Weeks of May     
5. Battle of the Cholon Y Bridge     
6. Combat in the Mekong Delta     
7. Adapting to the Rear-Echelon and the Battle of the Plain of Reeds
Report     
8. Back at Bearcat and the Thai Presidential Award     
9. Events at Dong Tam and Special Assignment     
10. Back at Dong Tam     
11. Last Months in South Vietnam     
Conclusion     
Appendices
A. Captured Viet Cong Attack Plan     
B. Battle of Saigon, May 1968     
C. After Action Report, Battle of the Plain of Reeds     
D. Evaluation of Intimate Psychological Warfare     
E. Recondo Checkerboard Concept     
F. Psychological Warfare Ground Action, 11 November 1966     
G. Psyop Estimate of INPSYWAR     
H. Air Cushion Vehicle Report     
I. Viet Cong Strength and Combat Effectiveness, 1 August 1968     
J. Viet Cong Order of Battle (9th Infantry Division's Area), September 1968
     
K. "Form Letter" from the 9th Infantry Division     
Index