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Can I read The Village of Ben Suc on EtoBox?
The Village of Ben Suc by Jonathan Schell; Schell Jonathan is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Village of Ben Suc about?
In an interview with Norm MacDonald on Netflix, Jane Fonda claimed that this book had radicalized her against American participation in the Vietnam War, and she still believed it.BEN SUC was arelatively prosperous farming village thirty miles from Saigon, on theedge of the Iron Triangle, the formidable Vietcong stronghold. It hadbeen “pacified” many times, but because of security leaks no Vietcongwere ever captured, and it always reverted to them. Therefore onJanuary 8, 1967, American forces launched a surprise assault kept secreteven from their South Vietnamese allies. The plan was to envelop thevillage, to seal it off, to remove its inhabitants, to destroy its everyphysical trace, and to level the surrounding jungle. JonathanSchell accompanied the operation from its beginning to its successfulbut dismal end, and reports it in depth as he saw it. This time no oneslipped away. The story of the bewildering task of separating the V.C.from ordinary villagers is the dramatic core of the first part of thisbook. The 3,500 villagers were moved to a refugee camp in Phu Loi,a barren, treeless “safe” area, with only what possessions they couldcarry. The bulldozers went to work and
Who reads The Village of Ben Suc?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jonathan Schell; Schell Jonathan
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 1967
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307807298
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Military History, History
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (11 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14