Stalking the Vietcong

Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account

Stuart Herrington

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Ballantine Books Inc.
15 December 2004

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong's shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam.

Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in the Hau Nghia province. His two-year mission to capture or kill Communist agents operating there was made all the more difficult by local officials who were reluctant to cooperate, villagers who were too scared to talk, and VC who would not go down without a fight. Herrington developed an unexpected but intense identification with the villagers in his jurisdiction-and learned the hard way that experiencing war was profoundly different from philosophizing about it in a seminar room.

By: Stuart Herrington
Imprint: Ballantine Books Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 171mm, Width: 105mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9780345472519
ISBN 10: 0345472519
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 December 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stuart A. Herrington was a counterintelligence officer in the Vietnam War. He served the last year of his thirty-year army career as a member of the faculty of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.