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Sappers In The Wire
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Sappers In The Wire Hardcover - 1995

by Nolan, Keith

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From the author of The Battle for Saigon and The Magnificent Bastards comes this first full-scale account of one of the U.S. Army's darkest moments in Vietnam. Includes eight pages of photos.

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College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 264 pages, clothbacked boards A minute-by-minute account of the night of March 27-28, 1971, when a company of North Vietnamese sappers penetrated Firebase Mary Ann, the forward outpost, and killed or wounded over a hundred soldiers. In the process they destroyed the aura of invincibility of the U.S. Army in Vietnam. With photos.
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  • Title Sappers In The Wire
  • Author Nolan, Keith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX
  • Date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5696
  • ISBN 9781585446438 / 1585446432
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.56 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.7

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About the author

Keith William Nolan has published six previous books on the Vietnam War, including Operation Buffalo and The Magnificent Bastards. As a reviewer of one of his books said, Nolan is a master of the personal interview. . . . He has the uncanny ability to convey not merely facts, but feelings. Nolan lives and writes in Webster Groves, Missouri.

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