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He lived through the horrible Viet Cong night attack on the Nam Dong Special Forces Camp in July 1964, and he survived the full-scale battle at Ban Me Thuot during Tet, 1968. Worst, he witnessed the decline of the mountain people from proud highlanders to refugees from a war none of them wanted and few understood. Hickey became respected by all parties as a fair intermediary between the highlanders, the American mission, and to some extent the Saigon government. His understanding of the montagnards, and his representation of their interests, helped to resolve their conflict with Saigon in 1965 and assured their alliance with U.S. forces through the rest of the war. These are his experiences, told with the calm yet deep emotion of a man who invested a major portion of his life and career in the events of the war and with the people among whom he lived and worked. His is a unique viewpoint and one to which we should attend. 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Coordination with the government of South Vietnam was poor, creating areas that were underserved.Most important, there is no evidence that the good will built by U.S. doctors transferred to South Vietnamese forces. American programs may have emphasized the inability of the Republic of Vietnam to provide basic health care to its own people and may have demonstrated to Vietnamese civilians that foreign soldiers cared more for them than their own troops did. 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Nearly every major force in South Vietnam was involved, and the battles bloody ending came to stand as a microcosm of what went wrong in the war. In its wake Ngok Tavak left issues that cried out for resolution for decades afterwards. 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Tran Van Nhut grew up with a great love for his country's history and served in the Army of South Vietnam from the Republics inception in 1954 until its demise in 1975. In 1970, he was appointed province chief of Binh Long (Peaceful Dragon) Province and commander of its Regional, Popular, and Peoples Self Defense Forces. It was in that capacity that he became involved in the sixty-six-day Battle of An Loc, in 1972, which ended in a significant South Vietnamese victory. From the book: 'Just after my helicopter took off, communist antiaircraft guns located north of An Loc directed a ferocious barrage at us. Luckily, not one round hit our helicopter, but when we tried to land at Loc Ninh, the curtain of North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire was so thick my American pilot was unable to land there. Looking down on Loc Ninh from above, my heart sank. Smoke curled skyward from the town. 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A sort of 'cottage industry devoted to denying that the Khmer Rouge committed any crimes' has appeared in Cambodia, as Craig Etcheson explains in \"\"After the Killing Fields\"\", and a new generation of Cambodians is growing up in a society where perpetrators of unbelievable evil walk free' - \"\"Times Literary Supplement\"\". 'Craig Etcheson is well known internationally as an expert dedicated to documenting the bitter harvest of the Khmer Rouge's grip on the Cambodian people, 1975-1978, and to evaluating its enduring aftermath...\"\"After the Killing Fields\"\" is a thorough insider's description of the Documentation Center of Cambodia's valuable work. More importantly, the book probes the culture of impunity and enhances our understanding of this extraordinarily complex issue. It is a major contribution to genocide studies, as well as an eloquent tribute to the Cambodians who suffered under the Khmer Rouge' - \"\"Frederick Z. Brown, \"\"H-Genocide\"\". 'New findings show that the death toll from the Cambodian genocide was approximately 2.2 million about a half million higher than commonly believed. Despite regular denials from the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, in \"\"After the Killing Fields\"\" Craig Etcheson demonstrates not only that they were aware of the mass killings, but that they personally managed and directed them. This book details the work of Yale Universitys Cambodian Genocide Program, which laid the evidentiary basis for the forthcoming Khmer Rouge Tribunal. The book also presents the information collected through the Mass Grave Mapping Project of the Documentation Center of Cambodia and reveals that the pattern of killing was relatively uniform throughout the country. Detailing the struggle to come to terms with what happened in Cambodia, Etcheson concludes that real justice is not merely elusive, but in fact may be impossible, for crimes on the scale of genocide. \"\"After the Killing Fields\"\" should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in Cambodia and international law' - Peter Maguire, author of \"\"Facing Death in Cambodia\"\". Etcheson draws on extensive field-work, archival research, and his own analytical skills to bring the horrors of the Khmer Rouge into focus and to make readers aware of the many-faceted, saddening aftermath of that murderous regime. David Chandler, author of \"\"Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pots Secret Prison\"\". 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The Vietnam War suffered famously from such home-front confusion, and from policy confusion too. Thus \"Vietnam Chronicles\" is especially welcome - for what it tells us about Vietnam, of course, but also for what it says about the myth-making and misperceptions that surround any war...Anyone seriously interested in understanding war - any war, including the current one - will want to sample the transcripts, not least for their vividness, real-time drama, and strategic insights' - James Schlesinger, \"Wall Street Journal\". 'The transcriptions provide verbatim recordings of briefings, meetings, and presentations among U.S. military men, their Vietnamese counterparts, and stateside visitors. Such sources give the sense of being present in the room...A valuable window for those attempting to understand the less-studied Vietnam War of the Nixon era. Highly recommended' - \"Choice\". 'A volume of importance and clout ...The military historian's equivalent of Webster's most comprehensive dictionary and a matching thesaurus . ..It stands without peer as the most authoritative record of one of the nation's most trying experiences' - Maj. Gen. Edward B. Atkeson, \"Army Magazine\". 'Sorley's argument is controversial, but I find it persuasive...To truly understand the Vietnam war, it is absolutely imperative to come to grips with the years after 1968...The edited transcriptions in \"Vietnam Chronicles\" clearly demonstrate that Creighton Abrams and his team possessed a policy and strategy that, but for domestic politics, might have led to an American success in Vietnam' - Mackubin Thomas Owens, \"Weekly Standard\". In \"Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972\", Lewis Sorley catapults the record to a whole new level...An important document that is certain to influence observers seeking to understand America's Vietnam War' - John Prados, \"The VVA Veteran\". 'Hugely engrossing ...An extremely important historical work and a valuable reference for historians, biographers, and others writing about or studying the Vietnam War...A remarkable record' - \"On Point\". 'The Abrams Tapes are extraordinary not for any particular revelation they make about the war. Rather, they present a sort of 'counter history' of the war's later years, wholly distinct from that known to the American public by authors such as David Halberstam and Francis Fitzgerald. Reading through [\"Vietnam Chronicles\"], a different, forgotten vision of the war appears, parallel to that of Halberstam, and incommensurable with it' - www.intellectualconservative.com. During the four years General Creighton W. Abrams was commander in Vietnam, he and his staff made more than 455 tape recordings of briefings and meetings. In 1994, with government approval, Lewis Sorley began transcribing and analyzing the tapes. 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