Eleven Days of Christmas America's Last Vietnam Battle

Name: Eleven Days of Christmas America's Last Vietnam Battle
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ISBN: 9781893554276

ISBN-10: 1893554279

ISBN-13: 9781893554276

Edition: 2001

Authors: Marshall L lii Michel

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In December 1972, with an increasingly dovish Congress preparing to cut off all funding for the war in Vietnam, President Richard Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi by the Strategic Air Command's "big stick," its fleet of B-52 bombers. Never before had a B-52 been lost in combat, but the North Vietnamese SAM missile crews knocked them out of the sky in the first days of the engagement. Despite the losses, the surviving bombers kept coming, inflicting huge losses on the North Vietnamese. For eleven days the momentum swung back and forth, moving from what appeared to be a certain U.S. triumph, to a possible North Vietnamese victory, to the ultimate ambiguous denouement in which both sides won…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 12/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 325
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword


Prologue: Peace Is Our Profession



War Is Our Hobby



Getting Serious



"Attacks must be brutal ..."



"Maximum effort, repeat, maximum effort ..."



"Downtown, where all the lights are bright ..."



The Night of the Fan Songs



The Second Day



The Slaughter of the Gs



Dien Bien Phu of the Air



Holding On



The Eighth Night



The Last Nights of Christmas



Denouement



Retrospective



Analysis



Linebacker II "Urban Legends"



Number of SAMs Fired



Key Organizations and Personnel for Linebacker III


Glossary


Acknowledgments


Reference Notes


Bibliographical Note


Partial Bibliography


Index