In 1966, U.S. Army Special Forces were pushed out of the A Shau Valley by the North Vietnamese Army. In 1967, Douglas Coulter, serving with the Fifth Special Forces Group, led five-man reconnaissance teams into A Shau to discover whether NVA and Viet Cong troops were marshalling for an attack on the ancient city of Hue. His clear-eyed memoir recalls nighttime helicopter insertions and deep-jungle patrols miles behind enemy lines, and reflects on the cruel narcissism of U.S. moral and military superiority as the underlying cause of the Vietnam War.

Douglas Coulter is a finance professor at Moscow State University. Previously he was a finance professor at Peking University for 24 years and a commissioner and chairman of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal in Washington, D.C.

Douglas Coulter
Foreword by General Henry Shelton
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages:
Bibliographic Info: ca. 20 photos, appendix, index
Copyright Date: 2022
pISBN: 978-1-4766-9020-9
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4807-1
Imprint: McFarland