Guidelines (Vietnam Ground Zero) [Paperback]

Eric Helm (Author)

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• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Gold Eagle; First Edition edition (September 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373627084
• ISBN-13: 978-0373627080
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,368,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars GOVERNMENT PAID TRIP TO NORTH VIETNAM, April 10, 2009

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This review is from: Guidelines (Vietnam Ground Zero) (Paperback)

This is number 8 in the VIETNAM: GROUND ZERO series of books by GOLD EAGLE books from October, 1987. The VIETNAM: GROUND ZERO series of books running from 1986 thru the mid 1990's totaled 35 books or so. Written in a series, each can be read independently of the others, but read together they form a mosiac of the entire conflict.

This particular book focuses on U.S. Air Force planes being shot down over North Vietnam by S2 surface to air missiles fired from a fixed site. But the planes are being hit due to the S2 not showing up on the radar screen. MACV-Saigon feels the Russians are giving the North Vietnamese S2 missles now employing a new technology, the only way to investigate is to insert a small recon force by HALO (high altitude, low opening)to get information about the new S2s. Mack Gerber and a small recon group are chosen to do this sneek and peek operation. What they find is in fact upsetting from a couple of angles, and the surprise reaches all the way back to the highest levels of MACV-Saigon. This is a FUBAR operation from start to finish.

These VIETNAM: GROUND ZERO books have interesting characters, well defined situations, and are written with a well chosen, flowing style that keep the pages turning. If you have any interest in military things in general or Vietnam in specific, then reading a few of these may just what's ordered.

Good from start to finish. As James A Cox of The Midwest Review stated by in '87, "Extra special...an unexpected find.".

Semper Fi.

(Happy 10th anniversary, Kay!)