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*Recommend you get USPS 'informed Delivery' so you know when you package is about to be delivered. McKenna's book is not only an essential historical resource for America's most controversial war but a personal story of valor and survival. advisers in combat during the Vietnam War. Kontum sheds new light on the actions of U.S. infantry lieutenant colonel assigned as a military adviser to the 23rd Division, participated in the battle of Kontum and combines his personal experiences with years of interviews and research from primary sources to describe the events leading up to the invasion and the battle itself.

McKenna fills this gap, offering the only in-depth account available of this violent engagement. In Kontum: The Battle to Save South Vietnam, Thomas P. They were surrounded and attacked by three enemy divisions with heavy artillery and tanks but, with the help of air power, managed to successfully defend Kontum and prevent South Vietnam from being cut in half and defeated.Īlthough much has been written about the Vietnam War, little of it addresses either the Easter Offensive or the Battle of Kontum. The 23rd ARVN Infantry Division and its American advisers were sent to defend the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands. Almost all of the American forces had already withdrawn from Vietnam except for a small group of American advisers to the South Vietnamese armed forces. In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in what became known as the Easter Offensive.

Kontum by Thomas McKenna