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Stalking the Vietcong

Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account

Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account

By Stuart Herrington

By Stuart Herrington

By Stuart Herrington

By Stuart Herrington

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    About Stalking the Vietcong

    In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong’s shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam.

    Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in the Hau Nghia province. His two-year mission to capture or kill Communist agents operating there was made all the more difficult by local officials who were reluctant to cooperate, villagers who were too scared to talk, and VC who would not go down without a fight. Herrington developed an unexpected but intense identification with the villagers in his jurisdiction–and learned the hard way that experiencing war was profoundly different from philosophizing about it in a seminar room.

    About Stalking the Vietcong

    In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong’s shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam.

    Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in the Hau Nghia province. His two-year mission to capture or kill Communist agents operating there was made all the more difficult by local officials who were reluctant to cooperate, villagers who were too scared to talk, and VC who would not go down without a fight. Herrington developed an unexpected but intense identification with the villagers in his jurisdiction–and learned the hard way that experiencing war was profoundly different from philosophizing about it in a seminar room.

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    About Stuart Herrington

    Stuart A. Herrington was a counterintelligence officer in the Vietnam War. He served the last year of his thirty-year army career as a member of the faculty of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

    About Stuart Herrington

    Stuart A. Herrington was a counterintelligence officer in the Vietnam War. He served the last year of his thirty-year army career as a member of the faculty of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

    Product Details

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Biography & Memoir | 20th Century U.S. History

    Mass Market Paperback | $8.99
    Published by Presidio Press
    Nov 23, 2004 | 304 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780345472519

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Biography & Memoir | 20th Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Presidio Press
    Aug 22, 2012 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307823809

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    Praise

    “A poignant, personal account by an Army district advisor who discovered the Vietcong to be a formidable opponent.”
    –The New York Times

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