The Vietnam War Handbook

The Vietnam War Handbook

 

In the 1950s the United States sent troops to Vietnam to support the South Vietnamese government in their fight against the communist North. Almost three million US men and women travelled thousands of miles to fight for what was a questionable cause. American involvement was at its peak from 1965 69 when some 500,000 American troops were in Vietnam. America's involvement in Vietnam ended in 1973. The war had cost her one billion dollars a day at its peak and she had dropped 7 million tons of bombs more than the entire total of all participants in the Second World War. By April 1975, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam had fallen to the communist North and a united Vietnam came into being. Andrew Rawson s fully illustrated single-source reference book is the latest in the Sutton Handbooks series and looks at US armed forces in the Vietnam War. He covers everything from infantry, artillery, armour, special forces, riverine craft, intelligence, combat support and service units, to weapons and equipment, organisation, command and control, daily life and tours of duty, awards and medals. Films and books, memorials and the legacy of the Vietnam War in the USA and South East Asia are also covered.

 

Andrew Rawson

Hardcover 320pp

Book Code:  AW0549

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