Victory at Any Cost
by Currey, Cecil B.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-11-01
Publisher(s): Potomac Books Inc
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Summary
The acclaimed biography of the military leader of communist forces during the Vietnam War.
Author Biography
Cecil B. Currey recently retired as professor of military history, University of South Florida, and from the U.S. Army Reserve with the rank of colonel.
Table of Contents
| List of Maps | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| An Xa, 1911-40 | |
| "The Making of a Revolutionary" | p. 3 |
| "We Did Not Know How to Fight" | p. 18 |
| "They Set Their Hopes on the Same Cause" | p. 33 |
| Ha Noi, 1941-46 | |
| "Neither Soft nor Warm" | p. 49 |
| "Each Man Was a Soldier" | p. 63 |
| "Boundless Was Our Joy" | p. 75 |
| "Welcome to Our American Friends" | p. 90 |
| "We Shall Resort to Arms" | p. 102 |
| "We Must Be Realistic" | p. 115 |
| "Fight to the Last Drop of Blood" | p. 130 |
| Dien Bien Phu, 1946-54 | |
| "Brandish the Banner of National Independence" | p. 145 |
| "It Was an Extremely Hard War" | p. 156 |
| "We Had to Cross Thirty Streams" | p. 171 |
| "The Sweat and Muscle of Our Soldiers" | p. 183 |
| "In the Heart of the Battlefield" | p. 198 |
| Saigon, 1955-91 | |
| "The Party Committed Serious Errors" | p. 213 |
| "Absolute Secrecy and Security Were Our Watchwords" | p. 228 |
| "Only Philosophers Talk of Laws" | p. 245 |
| "Washington Cannot See the End of the Tunnel" | p. 261 |
| "Rivers May Dry Up and Mountains May Erode" | p. 275 |
| "They've Had Me in My Grave a Dozen Times" | p. 291 |
| "The Memories Have Not Faded" | p. 305 |
| An Assessment | p. 317 |
| Giap's Nation: A Brief History of Viet Nam | p. 323 |
| Battle Casualties Compared | p. 331 |
| Notes | p. 335 |
| Bibliography | p. 373 |
| Index | p. 387 |
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