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Lost crusade : America's secret Cambodian mercenaries

Title: Lost crusade : America's secret Cambodian mercenaries / Peter Scott.
Author: Scott, Peter, 1945-
Publication: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, ©1998.

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Description

194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"When Peter Scott began a 1968 tour in Vietnam advising ethnic Cambodian Khmer Krom paramilitaries, they shared only an earnest desire to check the spread of communism. It took nearly thirty years and a chance reunion for him to realize just how much they had become a part of him." "Successfully blending intense combat narrative and stirring emotional drama, Scott vividly captures both the unique village culture of a little-known, highly spiritual people and their complex relationship with Special Forces soldiers, who found it increasingly difficult to match their charges' commitment to the costly conflict." "Building on his experiences as a Phoenix Program adviser near the Cambodian border, extensive interviews with Khmer Krom survivors, hundreds of hours of research in government archives, and requests for Freedom of Information Act disclosures, Scott seamlessly reconstructs the six-thousand-strong mercenary force's final crusade against communism, beginning in their ancestral home in 1970 and ending on the U.S. West Coast in 1995"--Jacket.

Series Statement

Naval Institute special warfare series

Uniform Title

Naval Institute special warfare series

Subject

Genre/Form

Personal narratives
History
Personal narratives – American
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.

ISBN

1557508461
9781557508461

LCCN

98020797

OCLC

ocm39182232
39182232
SCSB-540100

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library