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HOUSE TO HOUSE, PLAYING THE ENEMY'S GAME IN
SAIGON, MAY 1968
Keith Nolan
First book on the U.S. Army's only urban battle in Vietnam, with
parallels for today's war in Iraq. 32 B&W photos, 3 diagrams;
6x9 inches, 352 pgs.
During the first days of May, 1968, several regiments of Viet
Cong fighters quietly infiltrated the South Vietnamese capital
city, Saigon. With no chance of actually capturing the city, it
was a suicide mission aimed at the already-battered hearts &
minds of the American people who'd been rocked by the Tet
Offensive just 3 months earlier. The story of what followed --a
week-long battle in which the 9th Infantry Division drove the
Viet Cong out of the capital --is told in all its gritty &
gut-wrenching detail in House to House,. Keith Nolan
chronicles one of the most brutal engagements of the entire war
-- the U.S. Army's only house-to-house battle of Vietnam--and
reveals the hard-won lessons of Saigon, with their echoes
resounding in the streets of Baghdad today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Keith Nolan is the author of 10 books on the Vietnam War and
of numerous articles on the war published in Leatherneck
Magazine, The Marine Corps Gazette, Naval Institute Proceedings,
and Vietnam Magazine. Nolan lives near St. Louis in
Blackwell, Missouri.
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