Size: 19x13cm./7.4×5.1inch.
Weight: 124gr./4.3oz.
Year: 1965
Pages: 138
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Book made in Vietnam, 1965, and published by Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi. The book is about the battle of Ap Bac. In 1963 elements of the South Vietnamese 7th Infantry Division engage a smaller Viet Cong force outside the village of Ap Bac, 40 miles southwest of Saigon, in the Mekong Delta. The South Vietnamese force commits numerous mistakes, and the Viet Cong troops, holding strong defensive positions, kill 63 and wound 100 South Vietnamese soldiers. Estimates of Viet Cong casualties vary.
The Viet Cong forces also shoot down five American helicopters before successfully escaping the battlefield. Three Americans are killed in action. It is the first major South Vietnamese defeat after some notable victories in late 1962.