List of Figures List of Maps List of Photos Preface Acknowledgments Introduction List of Abbreviations 1. Prelude to Battle 2. The Nguyen Hue Campaign 3. The Area of Operations 4. The Battle of Loc Ninh 5. The Opening Battle for An Loc 6. Second Attack on An Loc 7. NVA High Tide 8. The Fight for Highway 13 9. Breaking the Siege 10. Evaluating the Battle of An Loc 11. Aftermath Epilogue Appendix 1. Order of Battle Appendix 2. Presidential Unit Citation, 229th Aviation Battalion Appendix 3. Presidential Unit Citation, Advisory Team 70 Notes Bibliography Index
A firsthand account of a desperate battle fought during Hanoi's 1972 Easter Offensive
James H. Willbanks is General of the Army George C. Marshall Chair of Military History and director of the department of military history at the US Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas. His books include A Raid Too Far: Operation Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos, The Tet Offensive: A Concise History, and Abandoning Vietnam.
"The [North Vietnamese] now held most of Binh Long province from Chon Thanh north to the Cambodian border with the exception of the town of An Loc. It was clear that An Loc would be the scene of the next major North Vietnamese effort. A lot was at stake. Not only were the lives of the South Vietnamese soldiers and their American advisers on the line, but so too was the prestige of the South Vietnamese government. The loss of a province so close to Saigon would be a disastrous loss of face for President Thieu and his administration. From the American perspective, the battle would be the supreme test of Vietnamization and President Nixon's policies in Vietnam. More than that, however, was the fact that very little stood between the North Vietnamese and Saigon except the forces at An Loc." --from The Battle of An Loc
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