Two soldiers, two lost fronts : German war diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa campaigns

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Label

Two soldiers, two lost fronts : German war diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa campaigns

Title remainder

German war diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa campaigns

Statement of responsibility

Don A. Gregory & Wilhelm R. Gehlen

Creator

• Gregory, Don A., (Don Allen)

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Germany, Heer
• Germany, Heer | Panzerarmeekorps Afrika
• Krengel, Rolf -- Diaries
• Soldiers -- Germany -- Diaries
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North
• Electronic books
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Russia (Federation) | Saint Petersburg

Genre

• Personal narratives, German
• Diaries

Language

eng

Summary

An inside account of the South Vietnamese elites who strove to carry on the war against the Communists during the U.S. Army's withdrawal . . . The book is a personal memoir of the author's service as a US Army advisor during the end-stages of America's involvement in Vietnam. During the period 1970-71, the US was beginning to draw down its combat forces, and the new watchword was Vietnamization. It was the period when the will of the US to prosecute the war had slipped, and transferring responsibility to the South Vietnamese was the only remaining hope for victory. The author served as a US Army advisor to South Vietnamese Ranger and Airborne units during this critical period. The units that the author advised spearheaded several campaigns in South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, as the US combat units withdrew. Often outnumbered and outgunned, the elite ranger and airborne units fought Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units in some of the most difficult terrain in Southeast Asia, ranging from the legendary U Minh forest and Mo So mountains in the Mekong Delta, to the rugged hills of southern Laos. The role of the small US advisory teams is fully explained in the narrative. With little support from higher headquarters, these teams accompanied the Vietnamese units on highly dangerous combat operations over which they had no command or control authority. When US advisors were restricted from accompanying South Vietnamese forces on cross-border operations in Cambodia and especially Laos, the South Vietnamese forces were badly mauled, raising concerns about their readiness and training, and their ability to operate without their US advisors. As a result, a major effort was placed on training these forces while the clock continued to run on the US withdrawal. Having served with a US infantry battalion during the peak years of the US involvement in Vietnam, Robert Tonsetic-the acclaimed author of Days of Valor-is able to view the war through two different prisms and offer criticisms and an awareness of why the South Vietnamese armed forces were ultimately defeated

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

940.548243

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult