A DISTANT CHALLENGE

by Albert N. Garland

A Distant Challenge is the sequel to Infantry in Vietnam. Like its predecessor, it establishes that the conflict in Southeast Asia was a "platoon leader's war." It also tells the story of American involvement through first person narratives by the men who led and the men who fought.
Arranged chronologically by year, A Distant Challenge covers all aspects of the U.S. Army's participation in the war: parachute jumps into War Zone C, digging the VC out of their underground bunkers, cordon and search operations, the battles of Dak To and Hue, firebase defense, operations in Cambodia and over Laos ... as well as material about Special Forces, Airmobile and mechanized infantry tactics. A special section deals with the psychology of the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies.
A Distant Challenge is the third release in the Battery Press Vietnam War Series.

Genres: Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Military History, War, History

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting as the exact opposite of all the personal how-messed-up-Vietnam-was books. This material is taken from an official infantry-officer's magazine in which -- guess what? -- all the operations were successful and we killed a legion of the little suckers and, oh yeah, the indigenous population came to love us, too. Guess the US won after all, eh?

[Roger Smitter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some times when you get a book that is almost 50 years, those years make you thing about many things.

The book is A Distant Challenge: The US Infantryman In Vietnam, 1967-1972 is a good book to think about what happened. It makes it wonder if I had was in war.

[Martin Koenigsberg · Rating 3 out of 5]

The reader may be entitled to be confused by this book- all US efforts in this book are successes. How did we lose this war? But one must remember that the US retreat from Vietnam was a political one - and that this is a compilation of Articles from US Army Sources throughout the conflicts later years. But its still a fascinating look at the processes and the techniques employed by the us. The military enthusiast/wargamer/modeller will love the many candid pics, procedural details and diagrams/maps. There are all sorts of scenarios for wargamers to replay. but the casual reader will probably find this boring. As a period document it is also interesting, of course....