| An American Adviser in Vietnam: My Story Contributor(s): Putnam, Ltcol (ret) Joe (Author) |
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ISBN: 1937178803 ISBN-13: 9781937178802 Publisher: WiDo Publishing OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Military - Vietnam War |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1967, Joe Putnam, fresh out of officer training school, is shipped overseas to Vietnam as part of President Johnson's American Adviser program. Putnam would be one of the American soldiers advising the South Vietnamese Army on how to conduct a war against the invading North Vietnamese Army and their counterparts in the south, the Viet Cong. This plan would supposedly keep the Communists at bay without actually getting the U.S. into full-fledged war in Southeast Asia. In his military memoir, now retired Lt. Col. Joe A. Putnam perfectly captures the action, the people, the battles, and of course the mixed feelings of a young man far away from home in a foreign land. Most of all, even now, Putnam wonders why he survived numerous harrowing episodes when others did not. |
