stalkere
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upstream, somebody asked about a good book on the conflict, using sources in Viet Nam.
I'd suggest "Inside the NVA" by Dan Cragg. Old book, but should be on a library shelf somewhere. I know Dan personally, he spent a total of seven years in Viet Nam, and speaks the language fluently. He went back in the eighties, and the People's Republic granted him unprecedented access to their archives. He got to speak to many former PAVN and NLF fighter - some that had been on the other sides of the battles that he was in.
Fascinating book, with a lot of food for thought. To sum up the question the OP gave, Dan feels that turning the war into an American Mass War was a mistake. It was not a land war in Europe, but that was what the Generals and Politicians kept trying to turn it into.
I'd suggest "Inside the NVA" by Dan Cragg. Old book, but should be on a library shelf somewhere. I know Dan personally, he spent a total of seven years in Viet Nam, and speaks the language fluently. He went back in the eighties, and the People's Republic granted him unprecedented access to their archives. He got to speak to many former PAVN and NLF fighter - some that had been on the other sides of the battles that he was in.
Fascinating book, with a lot of food for thought. To sum up the question the OP gave, Dan feels that turning the war into an American Mass War was a mistake. It was not a land war in Europe, but that was what the Generals and Politicians kept trying to turn it into.