Product Highlights
The Typhoon Truce, 1970, from Casemate (ISBN 9781636244648), recounts three days in October 1970 when Super Typhoons Joan and Kate struck northern I Corps, South Vietnam, prompting an unofficial pause in fighting near the demilitarized zone.
Features
- 264 pages
- Photos and illustrations throughout
- Book dimensions: 6" x 9"
About the book
As flooding from the back-to-back typhoons devastated the coastal lowlands of I Corps and into North Vietnam, American air crews faced Vietnamese civilians outside their base perimeters under an unofficial truce, an episode the book compares to the Christmas truce of World War I.
