Giap

Author : James A. Warren
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137098917

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Giap by James A. Warren Pdf

An in-depth look at the strategy and tactics of the visionary commander who beat the United States in the Vietnam War. General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody conflicts, he defeated both Western powers and their Vietnamese allies, forever changing modern warfare. In Giap, military historian James A. Warren dives deep into the conflict to bring to life a revolutionary general and reveal the groundbreaking strategies that defeated world powers against incredible odds. Synthesizing ideas and tactics from an extraordinary range of sources, Giap was one of the first to realize that war is more than a series of battles between two armies and that victory can be won through the strength of a society's social fabric. As America's wars in the Middle East rage on, this is an important and timely look at a man who was a master at defeating his enemies even as they thought they were winning.

Author : Vo Nguyen Giap
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678244

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Military Art of People's War by Vo Nguyen Giap Pdf

This collection includes the major writings of General Giap, who, on the evidence of his record as well as his theoretical work, has long been recognized as one of the military geniuses of modern times. The book includes writings from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s.

Author : Nguyên Giáp Võ,Tiến Dũng Văn
Publisher : Recon Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UOM:39015008836580

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How We Won the War by Nguyên Giáp Võ,Tiến Dũng Văn Pdf

Den nord-vietnamesiske forsvarsminister og øverstbefaldende Giap samt general Dung fremsætter politiske, strategiske og taktiske tanker om sejren.

Author : John C. Levanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Generals
ISBN : IND:30000083733893

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General Vo Nguyen Giap by John C. Levanger Pdf

Author : LTC John C. Levanter
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786250117

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General Vo Nguyen Giap: The Vietnamese Napoleon by LTC John C. Levanter Pdf

General Giap is undoubtedly one of the foremost practitioners of insurgency and revolutionary war. He has been called by some, the Vietnamese Napoleon. The issue is: What are the factors which have gained him such a reputation? What experiences have influenced his life and caused him to develop the strategy and tactics used the past 25 years in Vietnam? An extensive literature search was made to trace his life’s history and to determine what factors have caused him to be as he is. The study examined his early life, civilian education, and use within the Vietnamese Communist Party, military training and experience. No effort was made to give a detailed analysis of any campaign or battle. A final evaluation was made that although his contribution on to the two wars in Indochina was great, evidence does not support placing him with such men as Mao, Guderian, or Napoleon. He has contributed little which is new to strategic or tactical principle & but rather has demonstrated the ability to apply well those principles developed by others.

Author : Peter G. Macdonald
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393034011

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Giáp by Peter G. Macdonald Pdf

A portrait of one of the greatest military commanders of all time--from his early days as a resistance fighter against the Japanese through the brilliant campaigns against the French and Americans that established his reputation.

Author : Cecil B. Currey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640120822

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Victory at Any Cost by Cecil B. Currey Pdf

Many people do not understand why America lost the Viet Nam War. Author Cecil B. Currey makes one primary reason clear: North Viet Nam's Senior Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Victory at Any Cost tells the full story of the man who fought three of the world's great powers--and beat them all.

Author : George Mellinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782005841

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LaGG & Lavochkin Aces of World War 2 by George Mellinger Pdf

This book examines the LaGG family of fighters, that were amongst the first modern piston-engined interceptors made available to the Red Air Forces in early 1941and proved far better fighters than their radial-engined predecessors. Despite technical maladies and political interference from Moscow, the LaGG-3 matured into an effective fighter when flown to its strengths at low level. Many early Soviet aces were weaned on the LaGG-3, and if they survived the early massacres of 1941-42, they went on to fly the Lavochkin family of fighters. Indeed, the Lavochkin La-3, -5 and -7 were the fighters of choice for Heroes of the Soviet Union such as Ivan Kozhedub, who claimed 62 kills.

Author : Shaun Kingsley Malarney
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824826604

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Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam by Shaun Kingsley Malarney Pdf

This is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam. Based on official documents and several years of field research, it provides a detailed account of the nature of revolutionary cultural reform in Vietnam.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113704287

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-07
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCAL:B5537126

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Colvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015037298901

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Giap by John Colvin Pdf

Biography of the North Vietnamese military commander who became Minister for defence and Commander in Chief

Author : Igor Seidov,Stuart Britton
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910294314

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Red Devils over the Yalu by Igor Seidov,Stuart Britton Pdf

The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age. It was in the skies of North Korea where Soviet and American pilots came together in fierce aerial clashes. The best pilots of the opposing systems, the most powerful air forces, and the most up-to-date aircraft in the world in this period of history came together in pitched air battles. The analysis of the air war showed that the powerful United States Air Force and its allies were unable to achieve complete superiority in the air and were unable to fulfill all the tasks they'd been given. Soviet pilots and Soviet jet fighters, which were in no way inferior to their opponents and in certain respects were even superior to them, was the reason for this. The combat experience and new tactical aerial combat tactics, which were tested for the first time in the skies of Korea, have been eagerly studied and applied by modern air forces around the world today. This book fully discusses the Soviet participation in the Korean War and presents a view of this war from the opposite side, which is still not well known in the West from the multitude of publications by Western historians. The reason for this, of course, is the fact that Soviet records pertaining to the Korean War were for a long time highly classified, since Soviet air units were fighting in the skies of North Korea "incognito", so to speak or even more so to write about this was strictly forbidden in the Soviet Union right up to its ultimate collapse. The given work is in essence the first major work in the post-Soviet era. First published in a small edition in Russian in 1998, it was republished in Russia in 2007. For the first time, the Western reader can become acquainted with the most detailed and informative work existing on the course of the air war from the Soviet side, now in English language. The work rests primarily on the recollections of veterans of this war on the so-called 'Red' side - Soviet fighter pilots, who took direct part in this war on the side of North Korea. Their stories have been supplemented with an enormous amount of archival documents, as well as the work of Western historians. The author presents a literal day-by-day chronicle of the aerial combats and combat work of Soviet fighter regiments in the period between 1950 and 1953, and dedicates this work to all the men on both sides who fought and died in the Korean air war.

Author : Robert Pisor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393354522

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Siege of Khe Sanh: The Story of the Vietnam War's Largest Battle by Robert Pisor Pdf

A war correspondent’s masterful blow-by-blow account of the Battle of Khe Sanh, reissued with a new preface by Mark Bowden for the battle’s 50th anniversary. The six-month siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 was the largest, most intense battle of the Vietnam War. For six thousand trapped U.S. Marines, it was a nightmare; for President Johnson, an obsession. For General Westmoreland, it was to be the final vindication of technological weaponry; for General Giap, architect of the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, it was a spectacular ruse masking troops moving south for the Tet offensive. With a new introduction by Mark Bowden—best-selling author of Hu? 1968—Robert Pisor’s immersive narrative of the action at Khe Sanh is a timely reminder of the human cost of war, and a visceral portrait of Vietnam’s fiercest and most epic close-quarters battle. Readers may find the politics and the tactics of the Vietnam War, as they played out at Khe Sahn fifty years ago, echoed in our nation’s global incursions today. Robert Pisor sets forth the history, the politics, the strategies, and, above all, the desperate reality of the battle that became the turning point of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Author : Robert John O'Neill
Publisher : Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064843991

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The Strategy of General Giap Since 1964 by Robert John O'Neill Pdf