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Nov 23, 2004 | ISBN 9780345472519 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Aug 22, 2012 | ISBN 9780307823809 Buy
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Nov 23, 2004 | ISBN 9780345472519
Aug 22, 2012 | ISBN 9780307823809
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.
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.
“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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