In this first in-depth history of the ARVN from to , Robert Brigham takes readers into the barracks and training centers of the ARVN to plumb the hearts and souls of these forgotten soldiers. Robert K. Brigham (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 34 ratings · 5 reviews. Scorned by allies and enemies alike, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was one of the most maligned fighting forces in modern history. Cobbled together by U.S. advisers from the remnants of the French-inspired Vietnamese National Army, it was effectively pushed aside by the Americans in /5. By Robert K. Brigham - ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army Hardcover – Ap out of 5 stars 14 ratings Part of: Modern War Studies ( Books)/5(14).
Robert K. Brigham makes his case convincingly in this welcomed postrevisionist monograph on a maligned army. He does so, not with recycled English-language sources but with documents from the Vietnamese Archive in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnamese-language books and memoirs, and dozens of interviews of ARVN veterans. ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army robert k. brigham Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, Pp. xiv+ $ (cloth). Robert Brigham's social history of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) from to promises a "soldier's eye view beyond the battlefield into recruiting centers, barracks. When toward the end of the war the army was compelled to reassert itself, it was too little, too late for all concerned. In this first in-depth history of the ARVN from to , Robert Brigham takes readers into the barracks and training centers of the ARVN to plumb the hearts and souls of these forgotten soldiers.
By Robert K. Brigham - ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army Hardcover – Ap out of 5 stars 14 ratings Part of: Modern War Studies ( Books). Robert Kendall Brigham. University Press of Kansas, - History - pages. 0 Reviews. Scorned by allies and enemies alike, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was one of the most. ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army by Robert K. Brigham. University Press of Kansas, , pp. The Army of the Republic of Vietnam never became a fully legitimate arm of the government because of misguided policies, poor leadership, and a failure to create a Vietnamese army with origins in and connections to Vietnamese culture and history.
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