The Twenty Five Year Century A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon 1st Edition by Quang Thi Lam ISBN 1574411438 9781574411430 by Quang Thi Lam, Lam Quang Thi 9781574411430, 1574411438 instant download after payment.

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ISBN 10: 1574411438

ISBN 13: 9781574411430 

Author: Quang Thi Lam

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.

Table of contents:

1. INTRODUCTION

2. Early Years

3. Military Apprenticeship

4. North Viet Nam

5. Laos and Hauts Plateaux

6. Between Two Wars

7. US Command General Staff College

8. 7th Infantry Division

9. 9th Infantry Division

10. The Battle of Mang Thit

11. 1968 Tet Offensive

12. Vietnamese National Military Academy

13. Military Region One

14. I Corps Forward

15. The Fall of Military Region One

16. The Last Days

17. EPILOGUE

18. NOTES

19. Photo Gallery

20. GLOSSARY

21. INDEX

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