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- catalog abstract ""When Peter Scott began a 1968 tour in Vietnam advising ethnic Cambodian Khmer Krom paramilitaries, they shared only an earnest desire to check the spread of communism. It took nearly thirty years and a chance reunion for him to realize just how much they had become a part of him." "Successfully blending intense combat narrative and stirring emotional drama, Scott vividly captures both the unique village culture of a little-known, highly spiritual people and their complex relationship with Special Forces soldiers, who found it increasingly difficult to match their charges' commitment to the costly conflict." "Building on his experiences as a Phoenix Program adviser near the Cambodian border, extensive interviews with Khmer Krom survivors, hundreds of hours of research in government archives, and requests for Freedom of Information Act disclosures, Scott seamlessly reconstructs the six-thousand-strong mercenary force's final crusade against communism, beginning in their ancestral home in 1970 and ending on the U.S. West Coast in 1995"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11091879.
- catalog coverage "Cambodia History 1953-1975.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""When Peter Scott began a 1968 tour in Vietnam advising ethnic Cambodian Khmer Krom paramilitaries, they shared only an earnest desire to check the spread of communism. It took nearly thirty years and a chance reunion for him to realize just how much they had become a part of him." "Successfully blending intense combat narrative and stirring emotional drama, Scott vividly captures both the unique village culture of a little-known, highly spiritual people and their complex relationship with Special Forces soldiers, who found it increasingly difficult to match their charges' commitment to the costly conflict." "Building on his experiences as a Phoenix Program adviser near the Cambodian border, extensive interviews with Khmer Krom survivors, hundreds of hours of research in government archives, and requests for Freedom of Information Act disclosures, Scott seamlessly reconstructs the six-thousand-strong mercenary force's final crusade against communism, beginning in their ancestral home in 1970 and ending on the U.S. West Coast in 1995"--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "194 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Lost crusade.".
- catalog identifier "1557508461 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Lost crusade.".
- catalog isPartOf "Naval Institute special warfare series".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
- catalog relation "Lost crusade.".
- catalog spatial "Cambodia History 1953-1975.".
- catalog spatial "Cambodia.".
- catalog subject "959.704/38 21".
- catalog subject "Counterinsurgency Cambodia.".
- catalog subject "DS559.5 .S39 1998".
- catalog subject "Scott, Peter, 1945-".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Personal narratives, American.".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Underground movements.".
- catalog title "Lost crusade : America's secret Cambodian mercenaries / Peter Scott.".
- catalog type "text".