A Distant Challenge: The U.S. Infantryman in Vietnam, 1967-1972

by Albert N. Garland

MINOR STICKER DAMAGE ON COVER. LIGHT CREASE ON COVER. NO WRITING OR MARKS ON PAGES.

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

319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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....