Stalking the Vietcong : Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account

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“A poignant, personal account by an Army district advisor who discovered the Vietcong to be a formidable opponent.”
–The New York Times


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Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in the Hau Nghia province. His two-year mission to capture or kill Communist agents operating there was made all the more difficult by local officials who were reluctant to cooperate, villagers who were too scared to talk, and VC who would not go down without a fight. Herrington developed an unexpected but intense identification with the villagers in his jurisdiction-and learned the hard way that experiencing war was profoundly different from philosophizing about it in a seminar room.


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