The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War

by John M. Shaw and John M. Shaw

Book Overview

When American and South Vietnamese forces, led by General Creighton Abrams, launched an attack into neutral Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent antiwar protests throughout the United States, dealing yet another blow to Nixon's troubled presidency. But, as John Shaw shows, the campaign also proved to be a major military success.

Most histories of the Vietnam War either give the Cambodian invasion short shrift or merely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700614052
• ISBN13: 9780700614059
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"