The Battle of An Loc.(Book review)

From: Parameters | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The Battle of An Loc. By James H. Willbanks. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.226 pages. $29.95. Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Gregory A. Daddis, author of Fighting in the Great Crusade and Instructor, Department of History, US Military Academy.

Despite the devastation and anxiety generated by the three-month struggle for An Loc during the 1972 Easter Offensive, a sense of satisfaction pervades James H. Willbanks' account of what one historian has called "the single most important battle" in the Vietnam War. After the Americans had endured years of frustration in ...

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