Into Vietnam. Shaun Clarke
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Название: Into Vietnam
Автор: Shaun Clarke
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Приключения: прочее
isbn: 9780008155438
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Into Vietnam
SHAUN CLARKE
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by 22 Books/Bloomsbury Publishing plc 1995
Copyright © Bloomsbury Publishing plc 1995
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Cover photographs © MILpictures/Tom Weber/Getty Images (soldier); Shutterstock.com (textures)
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Source ISBN: 9780008155421
Ebook Edition © December 2015 ISBN: 9780008155438
Version: 2015-11-02
Contents
OTHER TITLES IN THE SAS OPERATION SERIES
The Viet Cong guerrillas emerged from the forest at dawn, with the mist drifting eerily about their heads. There were nearly fifty men, most dressed like coolies in black, pyjama-style combat gear and black felt hats, with sandals or rubber-soled boots on their feet. Nearly all of them were small and frail from lack of nourishment and years of fighting. Their weapons were varied: Soviet-made Kalashnikov AK47 machine-fed 7.62mm assault rifles; 7.62mm RPD light machine-guns with hundred-round link-belt drum magazines; 7.62mm PPS43 sub-machine-guns with a folding metal butt stock and thirty-five-round magazine; Soviet RPG7V short-range, anti-armour, rocket-propelled grenade launchers; and, for the officers only, Soviet Tokarev T33 7.62mm pistols, recoil-operated, semi-automatic and with an eight-round magazine.
As the VC left the forest behind them and crossed the paddy-field, wading ankle deep in water, the officers quietly slid their Tokarevs from their holsters and cocked them.
The Vietnamese hamlet was spread over a broad expanse of dusty earth surrounded by trees and its edge was about fifty yards beyond the paddy-field. With thatched huts, communal latrines, some cultivated plots, a regular supply of food from the nearby paddy-field, and a total of no more than fifty souls, it was exactly what the guerrillas were looking for.
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