The Twenty-Five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon - Couverture rigide

Thi, Lam Quang

 
9781574411430: The Twenty-Five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon
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ISBN 10 : 1574411438 ISBN 13 : 9781574411430
Editeur : University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

For Victor Hugo, the nineteenth century could be remembered by only its first two years, which established peace in Europe and France's supremacy on the continent. For General Lam Quang Thi, the twentieth century had only twenty-five years: from 1950 to 1975, during which the Republic of Vietnam and its Army grew up and collapsed with the fall of Saigon. This is the story of those twenty-five years.

General Thi fought in the Indochina War as a battery commander on the side of the French. When Viet Minh aggression began after the Geneva Accords, he served in the nascent Vietnamese National Army, and his career covers this army's entire lifespan. He was deputy commander of the 7th Infantry Division, and in 1965 he assumed command of the 9th Infantry Division. In 1966, at the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest generals in the Vietnamese Army. He participated in the Tet Offensive before being removed from the front lines for political reasons. When North Vietnam launched the 1972 Great Offensive, he was brought back to the field and eventually promoted to commander of an Army Corps Task Force along the Demilitarized Zone. With the fall of Saigon, he left Vietnam and emigrated to the United States.

Like his tactics during battle, General Thi pulls no punches in his denunciation of the various regimes of the Republic, and complacency and arrogance toward Vietnam in the policies of both France and the United States. Without lapsing into bitterness, this is finally a tribute to the soldiers who fell on behalf of a good cause.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lam Quang Thi was born in the South Vietnamese province of Bac Lieu. Correctly predicting that his country would be in a perennial state of war after the French left, he decided to pursue a career in the army. He was awarded the Vietnamese National Order, 3rd Degree, the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with seventeen combat citations, the U.S. Legion of Merit, and the Korean Order of Chung Mu. He holds a French Baccalaureate Degree in Philosophy and an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He currently lives in Milpitas, California.

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Éditeur
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1574411438
ISBN 13 
9781574411430
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781574415988: The Twenty-five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon

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ISBN 10 :  1574415980 ISBN 13 :  9781574415988
Editeur : University of North Texas Press,..., 2015
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