The Nva and Viet Cong - Couverture souple

Conboy, Kenneth; Bowra, Ken

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1855321629 ISBN 13 : 9781855321625

Editeur : Osprey Publishing, 1992

Synopsis

In 1940 Japan placed Vietnam under military occupation, restricting the local French administration to a figurehead authority. Seizing the opportunity, the Communists organised a Vietnamese independence league, the Viet Minh, whose armed forces became known as the PAVN (more commonly known to the West as the Vietcong, or NVA) and prepared to launch an uprising against the French at the war's end. This text details the history, organisation and uniforms of the People's Army of Vietnam from its origins in the fight against colonialism, through two separate wars against the US and Khmer Rouge, to its role in the modern era.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ken Conboy was educated as an undergraduate at Georgetown University and took his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. He also studied at Sophia University in Tokyo. He is the Deputy Director of the Asian Studies Centre, a Washington based think tank, which studies US strategic and economic policy towards South-East Asia, and he has travelled extensively in that region. Ken has written widely on the military forces of South-East Asia including two titles in the Men-at-Arms series on the wars in Laos and Cambodia, and Elite 33, South-East Asian Special Forces.

Ken Bowra is a retired major general who served in the US Army from 1970 to 2003. Bowra saw service with US special forces in the Vietnam War and Cambodian Civil War and has worked with the Central Intelligence Agency and Joint Special Operations Command.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Osprey Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1855321629
• ISBN 13: 9781855321625
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Illustrateur: McCouaig Simon
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible