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100 1  Yarborough, Tom 
245 12 A Shau Valor :|bAmerican Combat Operations in the Valley 
       of Death, 1963–1971 /|cThomas R. Yarborough. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bCasemate 
       Publishers,|c[2016] 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    1 online resource (329 pages) 
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520    From the award-winning author of Da Nang Diary, the 
       “detailed military history” (Publishers Weekly) of the 
       fighting between the North Vietnamese Army and the US 
       military and its South Vietnamese allies in the “Valley 
       of Death,” site of the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill 
       Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted 
       where the Viet Cong guerrillas and Army of the Republic of
       Viet Nam (ARVN) were not a major factor, but where the 
       trained professionals of the North Vietnamese and US 
       armies repeatedly fought head-to-head. A Shau Valor is a 
       thorough study of nine years of American combat operations
       encompassing the crucial frontier valley and a fifteen-
       mile radius around it―the most deadly killing ground of 
       the entire war. Beginning in 1963, Special Forces A-teams 
       established camps along the valley floor, followed by a 
       number of top-secret Project Delta reconnaissance missions
       through 1967. Then, US Army and Marine Corps maneuver 
       battalions engaged in a series of sometimes-controversial 
       thrusts into the A Shau, designed to disrupt NVA 
       infiltrations and to kill enemy soldiers, part of what 
       came to be known as Westmoreland’s “war of attrition.” 
       The various campaigns included Operation Pirous (1967); 
       Operations Delaware and Somerset Plain (1968); and 
       Operations Dewey Canyon, Massachusetts Striker, and Apache
       Snow (1969)―which included the infamous battle for 
       Hamburger Hill―culminating with Operation Texas Star and 
       the vicious fight for and humiliating evacuation of Fire 
       Support Base Ripcord in the summer of 1970, the last major
       US battle of the war. By 1971, the fighting had once again
       shifted to the realm of small Special Forces 
       reconnaissance teams assigned to the ultra-secret Studies 
       and Observations Group (SOG). Other works have focused on 
       individual battles or units, but A Shau Valor is the first
       to study the campaign―for all its courage and 
       sacrifice―chronologically and within the context of other
       historical, political, and cultural events. 
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