Kontum
Subtitle: the battle to save South Vietnam
By: Thomas P. McKenna
Series: Battles and campaigns; Battles and campaigns (Lexington, Ky.)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780813133980; 9780813134017
Subjects: Kontum, Battle of, Kon Tum, Vietnam, 1972
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Autumn in the highlands, 1971; title: Fighting in Phu Nhon; title: A hundred tons of bombs; title: The looming threat; title: The year of the rat; title: The North Vietnamese invasion; title: Attacking in An Khe Pass; title: Our firebases fall; title: The collapse at Tan Canh; title: A debacle at Dak To; title: A New team for the defense; title: Closing in on Kontum; title: Cut off and surrounded; title: Tanks attacking!; title: Struggling to hold it together; title: "Brother, this is going to be it!"; title: "You are going to be overrun"; title: The dirty job of killing; title: All over but the shooting?; title: Finishing the job.