Stalking the Vietcong
Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2004
Summary
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 rel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345472519 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0345472519 |
| Author: | Stuart Herrington |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2004 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 171mm x 106mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
“A poignant, personal account by an Army district advisor who discovered the Vietcong to be a formidable opponent.” The New York Times
“A poignant, personal account by an Army district advisor who discovered the Vietcong to be a formidable opponent.”
–The New York Times
About The Author
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.
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