Giap--volcano under snow, John Colvin

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Giap--volcano under snow, John Colvin

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John Colvin

Instantiates

• Giap--volcano under snow

Publication

• New York, Soho, 1996

Copyright

• ©1996

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-315) and index

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volume

Carrier category code

nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

I. End of One War -- II. Formation of a Revolutionary -- III. From Quiet Homes and Small Beginnings -- IV. Beginning of the Next War -- V. Fast Forward: Fifty-seven Years Later -- VI. The Formation of an Army -- VII. The French Pacify Cochinchina and the Red River Delta -- VIII. The Chinese Draw Near -- IX. The French Lose the Frontier: Hanoi Threatened -- X. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny: Giap Goes Too Far -- XI. De Lattre Dead, Giap Retakes Hoa Binh -- XII. The Shape of Things to Come -- XIII. Back to Laos -- XIV. The Navarre Plan -- XV. Dien Bien Phu: 20 November 1953-26 April 1954 -- XVI. Dien Bien Phu: 27 April 1954-8 May 1954 -- XVII. Land Reform -- XVIII. The Rise and Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem -- XIX. Leadership and Army in the North -- XX. The Viet Cong -- XXI. Rolling Thunder -- XXII. The First Combat Troops Land -- XXIII. Let Battle Commence -- XXIV. The Bombing of the North -- XXV. Giap's Options in 1966 -- XXVI. The Spokesman -- XXVII. Pacification Versus Attrition -- XXVIII. 'Negotiations' -- XXIX. Giap's New Strategy -- XXX. The Battle for Khe Sanh -- XXXI. The Tet Offensive of 1968 -- XXXII. What Giap Wanted from Tet and What Giap Got -- XXXIII. General Abrams Takes the Chalice -- XXXIV. The view from Hanoi in 1970 -- XXXV. Laos and Cambodia: the Trail and the Sanctuaries, 1970-1 -- XXXVI. The North Vietnamese Spring 1972 offensive -- XXXVII. The Consequences of the Peace Agreement of 1973 -- XXXVIII. Giap's Battering Ram -- XXXIX. What Might Have Been -- XL. 'Beat Not the Bones of the Buried...'

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ocm33443782

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25 cm

Extent

xii, 336 pages

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9781569470534

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95026280

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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n

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u565562

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• (OCoLC)33443782
• (Sirsi) a565562