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Search and Destroy

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Using firsthand accounts from Vietnam soldiers, this book "tells it like it is, warts and all . . . [an] honest account of a cavalry squadron's experience" (Military Review).
The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Armored Division deployed to Vietnam from Fort Hood, Texas, in August 1967. Search and Destroy covers the 1/1's harrowing first year and a half of combat in the war's toughest area of operations: I Corps.
The book takes readers into the savage action at infamous places like Tam Ky, the Que Son Valley, the Pineapple Forest, Hill 34, and Cigar Island, chronicling General Westmoreland's search-and-destroy war of attrition against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. Exploring the gray areas of guerrilla war, military historian Keith Nolan details moments of great compassion toward the Vietnamese, but also eruptions of My Lai-like violence, the grimmer aspects of the 1/1's successes. Search and Destroy is a rare account of an exemplary fighting force in action, a dramatic close-up look at the Vietnam War.
"Nolan's research, his comprehension of the political as well as the military actions, his careful concern for those who were there, and, most of all, his writing, are superb." —Stephen Ambrose

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Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

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  • Release date: December 20, 2022

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  • ISBN: 9781610600750
  • Release date: December 20, 2022

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  • ISBN: 9781610600750
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  • Release date: December 20, 2022

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Using firsthand accounts from Vietnam soldiers, this book "tells it like it is, warts and all . . . [an] honest account of a cavalry squadron's experience" (Military Review).
The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Armored Division deployed to Vietnam from Fort Hood, Texas, in August 1967. Search and Destroy covers the 1/1's harrowing first year and a half of combat in the war's toughest area of operations: I Corps.
The book takes readers into the savage action at infamous places like Tam Ky, the Que Son Valley, the Pineapple Forest, Hill 34, and Cigar Island, chronicling General Westmoreland's search-and-destroy war of attrition against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. Exploring the gray areas of guerrilla war, military historian Keith Nolan details moments of great compassion toward the Vietnamese, but also eruptions of My Lai-like violence, the grimmer aspects of the 1/1's successes. Search and Destroy is a rare account of an exemplary fighting force in action, a dramatic close-up look at the Vietnam War.
"Nolan's research, his comprehension of the political as well as the military actions, his careful concern for those who were there, and, most of all, his writing, are superb." —Stephen Ambrose

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