ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army.(Book review)

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ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army. By Robert K. Brigham. (Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 178. $29.95.)

In 1975 one in six able-bodied South Vietnamese males between the ages of sixteen and sixty served in the government's armed forces, and over two hundred thousand men had been lost in combat, hut the story of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldier remains a black hole in the history of the Vietnam War. Robert K. Brigham's short study, based on interviews with former ARVN veterans and documents in Vietnamese government ...

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