The Tunnels of Cu-Chi - Hardcover

Mangold, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394525760 ISBN 13: 9780394525761

Publisher: Random House, 1985

Synopsis

Explains how the North Vietnamese used underground tunnels in conjunction with other guerrilla warfare tactics against American forces and looks at the specially trained U.S. soldiers who explored and destroyed these underground complexes.

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Mangold has been an investigative reporter with BBC TV and a reporter for the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Express. As a war correspondent, he covered Vietnam, two Middle East wars, and the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. His first book, The File on the Tsar, was an international bestseller.

John Penycate is a journalist who has reported regularly for BBC TV’s weekly public affairs shows The Money Programme and Panorama and has interviewed major political and business leaders. He lectures at the journalism schools of London and Westminster universities. A resident of London, Penycate is active in institutes and societies concerned with the media and public affairs.

From Publishers Weekly:

The authors, BBC journalists, discuss the Vietcong who lived, worked and fought in tunnelsparticularly the ones in Cu Chi, a district just north of Saigonas well as the U.S. Army "tunnel rats," who tried to explore and clear the underground cities. PW found that this book "provides a striking view of a neglected but crucial aspect of the Vietnam war."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0394525760
• ISBN 13: 9780394525761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294