
Just Another Day in Vietnam
- Autor:
- Col (Ret) Keith M. Nightingale
- Narrador:
- David de Vries
Audiobook
Audiobook: 2 de fevereiro de 2021
- 4 Avaliações
- 4.5
- Idioma
- Inglês
- Categoria
- Biografias
- Duração
- 10H 3min
Just Another Day in Vietnam
Autor: Col (Ret) Keith M. Nightingale Narrador: David de Vries AudiobookUniquely adopting a third-person omniscient point of view, Nightingale eschews the "I" of memoir in favor of multiple perspectives and a larger historical vision that afford equal time and weight to ally and enemy alike. Examples of the many perspectives based on real-life characters include: Hu, a VC "informant" whose false information led the Rangers straight into the jaws of a ferocious ambush; General Tanh, the COSVN commander; Major Nguyen Hiep, the 52d Ranger Commander; and Ranger POWs later returned by the North.
Nightingale moreover offers the point of view of an American advisor to elite Vietnamese troops, a vital perspective regrettably underrepresented in the literature of Vietnam, including Burns's documentary. Added to this are well-informed conjecture of enemy psychology; insight into the dedication and often misunderstood role of the elite Vietnamese Ranger forces; the intelligence acquired from debriefing captured Rangers, whose captors had told them that the entire battle had been a carefully staged attack planned by COSVN as part of a larger Total War strategy developed by the leadership of the North Vietnamese Army; and an eyewitness account by a gifted author who is a rare survivor of one of the most vicious-and heretofore forgotten-battles of the war.
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