Giao Lien: Women of the Communist Underground: Voices from the Vietnam War
Автор:Virginia Morris, Clive Hills Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 224 ISBN: 1862274827 A unique study of the female spies who undermined the American offensive in Vietnam, complete with previously unpublished maps showing former safe-houses, secret army camps, and routes taken across IndochinaA The Vietnam War is one of the most documented conflicts in recent history but one of the forgotten aspects of the war is the vast underground network of the Vietcong which ran from each American base straight to the war rooms of Hanoi. This book concentrates on the women who carried out this exceedingly dangerous workA?known as giao lien, translated as "communications and guides." The giao lien were a mass underground organization linking military nerve-centers to grassroots Communist Party cells. Some were guerrilla fighters, others wereA spies or links between individual agents. Their aim was to join Communist cells across Indochina directly to General Giapa??s general headquarters in Hanoi. Using personal diaries, battle plans, and the help of Vietnamese veteran associations,...
