A War of Logistics: Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945-1954 by Shrader, Charles R.

A War of Logistics: Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945-1954 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813165752)

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A War of Logistics: Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945-1954 by Shrader, Charles R.

A War of Logistics: Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945-1954

$45.00
A War of Logistics: Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945-1954 by Shrader, Charles R.

A War of Logistics: Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945-1954

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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Following the French reoccupation of Indochina at the end of World War II, the pro-Communist Vietnamese nationalists, or Viet Minh, launched a grassroots insurgency that erupted into a full-fledged war in 1949. After nearly ten years of savage combat, the western world was stunned when Viet Minh forces decisively defeated the French Union army at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954. Logistics dominated every aspect of the First Indochina War, dictating the objectives, the organization of for

Author: Charles R. Shrader
ISBN-10: 081316575X
ISBN-13: 9780813165752
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2015
Pages: 514
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.50w x 2.00d
By Charles R. Shrader
By Charles R. Shrader
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Charles R. Shrader, former executive director of the Society for Military History, has taught at West Point, the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, and the Army War College. He is the author of several books, including The Withered Vine: Logistics and the Communist Insurgency in Greece, 1945--1949 and Communist Logistics in the Korean War.

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