A WAR OF THEIR OWN: FULRO, The Other National Liberation Front, Vietnam 1955-75

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In Vietnam, in 1967, William Chickering commanded a Mike Force battalion of Montagnards, highland tribesmen who were also members of a secret army, FULRO, whose aim was to rid the highlands of all Vietnamese, both communist and non-communist. Fighting for land and dignity, they saw the Vietnamese as colonialists and themselves as revolutionaries. Explores the author's journey to understand FULRO and how they mysteriously disapeared. Seeks to correct history's assumption that Vietnam's Montagnards were only pawns, revealing how an ideology of their own-ethnonationalism-gave them the agency to create an army and clandestine movement that kept Hanoi, Saigon, and Washington guessing. Contains 26 photos and 3 maps.