Phoenix and the Birds of Prey
Title | Phoenix and the Birds of Prey PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Moyar |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 673 |
Release | 2022-01-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1496203895 |
This study explodes prevailing myths about the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its "civilian" leaders. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with American, South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, Mark Moyar examines the attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure and analyzes their effectiveness. He addresses misconceptions about these efforts and provides an accurate, complete picture of the allies' decapitation of the Viet Cong shadow government. Combining social and political history with a study of military operations, Moyar offers a fresh interpretation of the crucial role the shadow government played in the Viet Cong's ascent. Detailed accounts of intelligence operations provide an insider's view of their development and reveal what really happened in the safe havens of the Viet Cong. Filled with new information, Moyar's study sets the record straight about one of the last secrets of the Vietnam War and offers poignant lessons for dealing with future Third World insurgencies. This Bison Books edition includes a new preface and chapter by the author.
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey
Title | Phoenix and the Birds of Prey PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Moyar |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2007-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803233768 |
This study explodes prevailing myths about the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its “civilian” leaders. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with American, South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, Mark Moyar examines the attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure and analyzes their effectiveness. He addresses misconceptions about these efforts and provides an accurate, complete picture of the allies’ decapitation of the Viet Cong shadow government. Combining social and political history with a study of military operations, Moyar offers a fresh interpretation of the crucial role the shadow government played in the Viet Cong's ascent. Detailed accounts of intelligence operations provide an insider’s view of their development and reveal what really happened in the safe havens of the Viet Cong. Filled with new information, Moyar’s study sets the record straight about one of the last secrets of the Vietnam War and offers poignant lessons for dealing with future Third World insurgencies. This Bison Books edition includes a new preface and chapter by the author.
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey
Title | Phoenix and the Birds of Prey PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Moyar |
Publisher | US Naval Institute Press |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with more than 100 U.S., South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, historian Mark Moyar dissects attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure. Filled with new revelations and corrections of existing accounts, Moyar's long overdue history sets the record straight about one of the last remaining secrets of the Vietnam War--and offers poignant lessons for dealing with future Third World insurgencies. 40 photos.
Birds of Prey
Title | Birds of Prey PDF eBook |
Author | David Drake |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2015-08-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765387050 |
Rome, 262 A.D: It had been the capital of the greatest civilization on Earth. Now both city and civilization are dying. Imperial unity has shattered as separatist and usurpers squabble among themselves and greater enemies gather to swallow them all. One man stands between humanity and the Long Night, matching his savage determination against a hopeless future. He is Aulus Perennius, an Imperial secret agent as tough and ruthless as the age in which he lives. Until now, though, his enemies have all been human. “Blood and thunder need not be thud and blunder if done with intelligence and flair, and David Drake has proven that he can do it that way.” —Asimov’s SF Magazine on Birds of Prey At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Birds of Prey
Title | Birds of Prey PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Ovington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780820009087 |
In text, drawings and color illustrations, this book describes birds of prey - eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, kites and vultures - and discusses the importance of these birds and their function within ecosystems.
Birds of Prey
Title | Birds of Prey PDF eBook |
Author | Floyd Scholz |
Publisher | Stackpole Books |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780811702423 |
Raptors have intrigued and inspired artists and naturalists for thousands of years. Floyd Scholz's own fascination with these winged hunters began when he took up bird carving in the 1970's, but he was long frustrated by the lack of close up, detailed reference photographs of these birds. He decided to team up with photographer Tad Merrick to fill that void.
Raptor
Title | Raptor PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Feld |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2012-03-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226240398 |
Raptor, the second book by the author of the widely praised Citizen, is a collection of formal poems and measured free verse unified by its investigation of our ancient poetic, mythic, and scientific fascination with birds of prey: hawks, eagles, owls, vultures, and falcons. Drawing extensively on his own experience working at a raptor rehabilitation center, along with a variety of sources ranging from medieval texts on falconry to the latest conservation studies of raptor anatomy and habitat, Andrew Feld shows these killing birds to be mirrors for humanity, as indicator species, and as highly charged figures for the intersection of that which we call “wild” and that which we think of as domesticated or domestic—and how these opposed terms apply to the imperiled natural world, to our human social relations, and to our most private, interior selves. In these poems, Feld does not shy away from either the damaging world or “the new, more comprehensive view / damage affords” in its aftermath.