CANOPY OF WAR - earliest wars to Vietnam, B . Perrett, 1st UK HBdj VG

Description: Canopy of War - Jungle Warfare from the Earliest Days of Forest Fighting to the Battlefields of Vietnam Perrett, BryanLondon: Patrick Stephens Limited, 1990, UK first edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 7x10, VG/VG CONDITION,( very light dj edge wear ), 208 pages, well illustrated, index.-------------------- The jungle is, 'for those unfamiliar with it, an environment pregnant with menace'. So Bryan Perrett describes this setting for wars that since the invasion of western territories in 1941 have been responsible for altering the political map of the world and effectively destroying the concept of colonialism . . . the setting, too, for the political defeat of the world's most powerful nation, brought about, not by the enemy, but by the nightly coverage of the Vietnam War on the television screens of America.------------------------ Establishing an historical perspective dating back to AD 9, Bryan Perrett focuses on the jungle fighting of wars from the eighteenth century to the recent past. In the Second World War, Japan's rapid conquests were to demonstrate the successful adaptation of storm troop tactics to the jungle. Once the Allies began to apply their minds and resources to victory, however, there was no answer to the aggressive use of armour and artillery and the deployment of air power for supply and ground support, though jungle fighting remained very much a test of men, as at Imphal and Kohima. Post-war insurrection and confrontation were to hone the British Army's efficiency in a jungle environment. But for the French in Vietnam there was to be no victory over an enemy that enjoyed widespread popular support, was well organized militarily and politically, and committed ideologically to fight for ever; and when the Americans were drawn in, jungle warfare entered another age—one in which advances in science and technology and their awesome application set the scene for the longest and most brutal contest in history between willpower and firepower.New Terms ************************************************************ THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING WITH US - WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS. 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