Stackpole Books

Stackpole Books - Death in the highlands: the siege of special forces camp plei me, hardcover/j. keith saliba

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In fall 1965, North Vietnam's high command smelled blood in the water.

The South Vietnamese republic was on the verge of collapse, and Hanoi resolved to crush it once and for all.

The communists set their sights on South Vietnam's strategically vital West-Central Highlands.

Annihilate ARVN's defenses in Kontum and Pleiku provinces, the communists surmised, and the region's remaining provinces would topple like dominoes.

Their first target was the American Special Forces camp at Plei Me, remote a.