Kontum The Battle to Save South Vietnam / [Recurso electrónico] :
Thomas P. McKenna.
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 344 p., [16] p. of plates :) ill., maps ;
- Battles and campaigns .
- Battles and campaigns (Lexington, Ky.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-324) and index.
Autumn in the highlands, 1971 -- Fighting in Phu Nhon -- A hundred tons of bombs -- The looming threat -- The year of the rat -- The North Vietnamese invasion -- Attacking in An Khe Pass -- Our firebases fall -- The collapse at Tan Canh -- A debacle at Dak To -- A New team for the defense -- Closing in on Kontum -- Cut off and surrounded -- Tanks attacking! -- Struggling to hold it together -- "Brother, this is going to be it!" -- "You are going to be overrun" -- The dirty job of killing -- All over but the shooting? -- Finishing the job.