Weapons and Field Gear of the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong

Edward J. Emering (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

1998
Schiffer Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7643-0583-2 (ISBN)

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Field gear and inert weapons and ordnance have long been popular items with militaria collectors. The Vietnam War by its very nature offers an incredible range and variety of these items for the interested collector. The North Vietnamese and their puppet troops of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong or VC) relied primarily on communist allies (Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba and various Eastern Bloc countries of the era) for their weapons and field gear. For this reason, Vietnam represents a microcosm of gear from all of this century's wars, dating back to World War I, as well as a wide range of improvised weapons and equipment. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the variety of hand grenades used by the enemy, including Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Eastern European, French, Japanese and even modified, captured U.S. grenades. Although impossible to completely catalog the extreme variety of weapons and field gear used by the PAVN and VC, author Edward Emering has made a determined effort to present a wide overview of the weapons and field gear used from the late-1950s through the modern era. He has been aided in his goal by obtaining access to the world class collection of the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, located in Chicago, Illinois and by material from a number of extensive private collections. This book will help both the serious collector as well as those individuals interested in acquiring only a token piece of history to avoid potentially costly mistakes. A value guide is included.

Ed Emering is also the author of Orders, Decorations and Badges of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam: A Photographic Reference (available from Schiffer Publishing Ltd.).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.9.2004
Zusatzinfo	over 400 color and b/w photographs
Verlagsort	Atglen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	957 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-7643-0583-2 / 0764305832
ISBN-13	978-0-7643-0583-2 / 9780764305832
Zustand	Neuware