Into Cambodia [Paperback]

A vivid account of the 1970 springtime campaigns of the U.S. Army in South Vietnam along the Cambodia border, told from the soldier’s perspective with detailed battlefield tales

“Most of us remember [the 1970 Cambodian campaign] for the killings of four young people at Kent State. [Keith] Nolan wants us to remember that it killed a lot of young Americans in Cambodia as well.”—The Capital Times

“This is combat narrative at its best. Nolan has mastered the soldier’s slang and weaves it expertly into the account. . . . A compelling read, and a valuable addition to the growing body of Vietnam literature.”—Military Review
 
“Lives up to the high standards of his previous books. Nolan dives deeply into his subjects by getting his hands on first-person testimony primarily through interviews with those who took part in the fighting.”—The VeteranKeith Nolan (1964–2009) is acknowledged as the foremost chronicler of the Vietnam War. He is the author of many Vietnam War combat histories, includingBattle for Hue: Tet 1968;The Battle for Saigon: Tet 1968;Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969;Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970; andHouse to House: Playing the Enemy's Game in Saigon, May 1968.PREFACE
 
The focus of this manuscript is the Indochina War in the year 1970, most specifically the springtime campaigns of the U.S. Army in South Vietnam along the border with neutral (but communist-dominated) Cambodia, and the dramatic summertime offensive into Cambodia authorized by President Nixon. These were, of course, political times during which the policies of Vietnamization and Withdrawal had taken the headlines away from the battlefield. This manuscript is offered in honor of those soldiers whom history has generally bypassed. Whereas tl³.