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A Shau Valor: American Combat Operations In The Valley Of Death, 19631971
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Winner Of The Military Writers Society Of America'S 2017 Gold Medal For Historyfinalist, 2016 Army Historical Society Distinguished Writing Award.Throughout The Vietnam War, One Focal Point Persisted Where The Viet Cong Guerrillas And Arvn Were Not A Major Factor, But Where The Trained Professionals Of The North Vietnamese And U.S. Armies Repeatedly Fought Headtohead. A Shau Valor Is A Thoroughly Documented Study Of Nine Years Of American Combat Operations Encompassing The Crucial Frontier Valley And A 15Mile Radius Around Itthe Most Deadly Killing Ground Of The Entire Vietnam War.Beginning In 1963 Special Forces Ateams Established Camps Along The Valley Floor, Followed By A Number Of Topsecret Project Delta Reconnaissance Missions Through 1967. Then, U.S. Army And Marine Corps Maneuver Battalions Engaged In A Series Of Sometimes Controversial Thrusts Into The A Shau Designed To Disrupt Nva Infiltrations And To Kill Enemy Soldiers, Part Of What Came To Be Known As Westmorelands War Of Attrition.The Various Campaigns Included Operation Pirous In 1967, 1968S Operations Delaware And Somerset Plain, 1969S Operations Dewey Canyon, Massachusetts Striker, And Apache Snowwhich Included The Infamous Battle For Hamburger Hillculminating With Operation Texas Star And The Vicious Fight For And Humiliating Evacuation Of Fire Support Base Ripcord In The Summer Of 1970, The Last Major U.S. Battle Of The War.By 1971 The Fighting Had Once Again Shifted To The Realm Of Small Special Forces Reconnaissance Teams Assigned To The Ultrasecret Studies And Observations Groupsog. Other Works Have Focused On Individual Battles Or Units, But A Shau Valor Is The First To Study The Nineyear Campaignfor All Its Courage And Sacrificechronologically And Within The Context Of Other Historical, Political And Cultural Events.Table Of Contentsprefacemap Section1. Into The Valley Of Death2. The Rise And Fall Of Camp A Shau3. Project Delta Invades The Valley Of Death4. Sog: West Of The A Shau5. Annus Horribilis: 19686. Operation Dewey Canyon7. Eleven Times Up Hamburger Hill8. Ripcord: Valor In Defeat9. A Shau Fini: The Ninth Year10. A Bard For The Gruntsepilogueacknowledgmentschapter Notesglossarybibliographyindex
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