Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam (39 page)

23.
 
Pribbenow,
Victory,
pp. 261.

24.
 
Sorley, p. 257.

25.
 
Ibid., p. 265.

26.
 
Turley, p. 138.

27.
 
Ibid.

28.
 
Quoted in Duiker, p. 307.

29.
 
Ibid., p. 319.

30.
 
Kolko, p. 422.

31.
 
Henry Kissinger,
White House Years
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979), p. 1100.

32.
 
Sorley, pp. 329–330.

33.
 
Ibid., p. 328.

34.
 
Ibid., p. 300.

35.
 
Duiker, p. 325.

36.
 
Turley, p. 151.

37.
 
Duiker, p. 325.

38.
 
Ibid.

39.
 
Vo Nguyen Giap,
The General Headquarters in the Spring of Brilliant Victory: Memoirs
(Hanoi: Th
Gi
i Publishers, 2002), p. 55.

40.
 
Ibid., pp. 74–75.

41.
 
Merle Pribbenow, “North Vietnam’s Final Offensive: Strategic Endgame Nonpariel,”
Parameters,
Winter 1999–2000,
http://www.proquest.com
.

42.
 
Pribbenow, “Final Offensive.”

43.
 
Davidson, p. 769.

44.
 
Pribbenow, “Final Offensive.”

45.
 
Giap,
General Headquarters,
pp. 246–247.

46.
 
Karnow, p. 683.

47.
 
Giap,
General Headquarters,
pp. 253–255.

48.
 
Rod Paschall, “Victor’s Final Strategy,”
Vietnam Magazine
, Vol. 12, No. 6 (April 2000),
http://www.proquest.com
.

CHAPTER 11

  
1.
 
Logevall,
Embers of War
, p. 147.

  
2.
 
Kolko, p. 551.

  
3.
 
Ibid., p. 552.

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