Inside the VC and the NVA
Subtitle: the real story of North Vietnam's armed forces
By: Michael Lee Lanning, Dan Cragg.
Contributors: Cragg, Dan.
Edition: 1st Texas A&M University Press ed.
Series: Texas A&M University military history series -- no. 122; Texas A & M University military history series -- no. 122.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781603440592
Subjects: Vietnam (Democratic Republic). -- Quân đội -- History -- Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam -- History; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
Description: "America and her allies believed that manpower, firepower, logistics, and technology were sufficient to guarantee victory in Vietnam. This book describes how the communists placed their trust in the oldest and most reliable tool of warfare: the individual soldier. The authors, with their six-and-a-half years' combined experience on the ground in Vietnam, bring to this absorbing volume a personal observation, accuracy, and honesty that is denied those who never smelled gunpowder or suffered the hardships of the soldier's life. Using interviews, personal diaries and letters, documents captured on the battlefield, and the latest revelations of the government of Vietnam, the authors show why the communist Vietnamese were able to finally seize all of Vietnam."

"Comments from American generals and soldiers round out this exhaustive portrait of the enemy. Finally, the sad aftermath of the Vietnam War is presented, showing that the communists may have won the war, but, tragically, never achieved peace for their beleaguered nation."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published by Ballantine Books, 1992 and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In their own words; title: The Vietnam enigma; title: The bamboo soldiers: recruiting and training; title: The infiltration south; title: Organization; title: Equipment, arms, and supplies; title: Logistics; title: Their silent tents are spread: life in camp and bivouac; title: In battle; title: Voices from the other side; title: Voices from the other side: the grunts; title: Losers and losers: Vietnam after the fall of Saigon.