Vietnam '66: A Personal Experience of the War

This book focuses in detail on a brief time period and a narrow concern: the strategic and tactical uses of tunnels by the Viet Cong during the middle and late 1960s. Although tunnels had been built since early in the war against the French, it was not until about 1966 that Americans fully perceived their extent and the dangers they presented. The tunnels were essentially eliminated by 1969, but not before they had provided concealment and surprise for many communist military operations, in...