"True Faith and Allegiance: An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc" is an intimate and compelling account of the most brutal infantry warfare and is also a critique of the mishandling of AmericaOCOs departure from Indochina. An unintended consequence of WashingtonOCOs stampede to get out of Indochina was an upsurge in combat on a scale not seen before in Vietnam, peaking with the Easter Offensive of 1972. The battle for An Loc, a key component in the North Vietnamese attempt to overwhelm the South, swept ...
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"True Faith and Allegiance: An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc" is an intimate and compelling account of the most brutal infantry warfare and is also a critique of the mishandling of AmericaOCOs departure from Indochina. An unintended consequence of WashingtonOCOs stampede to get out of Indochina was an upsurge in combat on a scale not seen before in Vietnam, peaking with the Easter Offensive of 1972. The battle for An Loc, a key component in the North Vietnamese attempt to overwhelm the South, swept Mike McDermott, then the senior advisor to an elite South Vietnamese paratrooper battalion, into some of the most horrific close-quarters fighting of the war. His in-the-trenches account is augmented by detailed descriptions of a userOCOs perspective on the parachute resupply, tactical airpower, and B-52 strikes that allowed the An Loc garrison to survive. "True Faith and Allegiance" is a riveting recounting of the prism through which a Vietnam veteran views the war as he continues to live with the aftereffects of life-altering experiences in the service of his country.
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Fair. A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Dust jacket may be missing. Pages can include considerable highlighting markings writing but cannot obscure the text. May be an Ex-lib. copy and have standard library stamps and or stickers. May NOT include discs or access code or other supplemental material. We ship Monday-Saturday and respond to inquiries within 24 hours.
