Vietnam from Cease-Fire to Capitulation [Illustrated Edition]

Col. William E. Le Gro

ag. del 2016 · Pickle Partners Publishing

Sobre aquest llibre

Col. William E. Le Gro was a staff member of the MACV (U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam) from 1972-1975 and served in Saigon during its last days. Armed with first-hand knowledge, including the GVN forces and their limits, this book will provide the reader with an accurate and detailed account of events following the U.S. withdrawal in 1973.

Illustrated with 22 maps.

Sobre l'autor

Colonel William E. Le Gro was an infantryman who fought in New Guinea and the Philippines in 1944 and 1945. Subsequent service included troop and staff duty in Germany and Korea and graduation from the Army War College. As a graduate student at American University in 1963 and 1964, he specialized in East and South-east Asia. He was also concerned with South-east Asia while assigned to the office of the Army’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations in 1964 and 1965. Colonel Le Gro served in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967 as G-2, 1st Infantry Division, and was Director of Asian Studies at the Army War College from 1969-1971. From December 1972 - 29 April 1975 he was a senior staff officer with the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, and its successor agency, the U.S. Defense Attaché Office, Saigon.