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Long Binh Jail : an oral history of Vietnam's notorious U.S. military prison

Title: Long Binh Jail : an oral history of Vietnam's notorious U.S. military prison / Cecil Barr Currey.
Author: Currey, Cecil B.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

xix, 193 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Long Binh Jail was a place so feared that American soldiers would rather face the Viet Cong than be sent there."--BOOK JACKET.
"Known as "LBJ" or simply "The Stockade," it was officially the U.S. Army Installation Stockade in Long Binh, South Vietnam. Within its confines were Americans whose offenses ran the gamut from drug possession, insubordination, and AWOL, to assault, rape, and murder. Containing up to a thousand prisoners at a time, Long Binh jail was, in effect, the Army's own little penal colony and one sharply divided by racial tensions."--BOOK JACKET.
"In 1968, these tensions erupted when most of its African-American prisoners took over the prison compound. The riot, which had to be put down by armed American troops using tear gas, was noted around the world as another sign of the sagging morale of U.S. forces. Noted military historian Cecil Barr Currey tells the story of Long Binh jail through the words of dozens of former guards, prisoners, and administrators.
They reveal a disturbing aspect of the Vietnam War that has not been examined until now."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

1574881868 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99023634

OCLC

ocm41338020

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Columbia University Libraries