Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Stalking the Vietcong: Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account

Stalking the Vietcong: Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account

Herrington, Stuart

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryArmed ForcesVietnam War

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 0345472519
ISBN13: 9780345472519
Publisher: Ballantine Group
Published: Nov 23 2004
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.83 Width: 4.26 Depth: 6.88
Language: English
In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong's shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam.

Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in the Hau Nghia province. His two-year mission to capture or kill Communist agents operating there was made all the more difficult by local officials who were reluctant to cooperate, villagers who were too scared to talk, and VC who would not go down without a fight. Herrington developed an unexpected but intense identification with the villagers in his jurisdiction-and learned the hard way that experiencing war was profoundly different from philosophizing about it in a seminar room.

Also in

Vietnam War

View All