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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Peter Taylor
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DESCRIPTION:Local author and veteran\, Peter Taylor\, returns to the libra
 ry to discuss the latest book in his series\, The Province Senior Intellig
 ence Advisor\,: Kien Song Province\, 1970-1971. .\nhttps://bplwv.libnet.in
 fo/event/7993510
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Local author and veteran\, Peter Taylor\, 
 returns to the library to discuss the latest book in his series\, The Prov
 ince Senior Intelligence Advisor\,: Kien Song Province\, 1970-1971. Be sur
 e to check out <a href="https://marion.tlcdelivers.com/?#section=resource&
 amp\;resourceid=1043619844&amp\;currentIndex=0&amp\;view=fullDetailsDetail
 sTab">his first book</a>--available the library!</p>\n<p><strong>About the
  book:</strong></p>\n<p>This story involves one of the lesser heralded par
 ts of the Vietnam War\, the American Advisors who worked directly with the
  Vietnamese to improve their abilities to operations as we departed Vietna
 m under President Nixon&rsquo\;s Vietnamization plan</p>\n<p>First Lieuten
 ant Paul Tyler\, a twenty-one-year-old\, military intelligence officer\, s
 erving at the small district at Ap Bing extends his year-long tour in Viet
 nam for an additional six-months. He is reassigned from his District team 
 in the Mekong Delta and ordered to the Provincial Capital at Kien Song Pro
 vince to assume the position as the Senior Intelligence Advisor to the Mil
 itary Assistance Command - Vietnam's Team 85. He inherits a disjointed int
 elligence effort and works to develop a cooperative and effective intellig
 ence team along the Cambodian border with his Vietnamese allies.</p>\n<p>T
 yler goes to Saigon monthly to brief General Creighton Abrams\, the Comman
 ding General of the MACV\, on the province's intelligence situation. Durin
 g his stays in Saigon our young lieutenant is befriended by Martha Greene\
 , a Red Cross worker in Saigon\, who arranges for him to stay in her Batch
 elor Officers Quarters during his trips to the city. Martha arranges dates
  for Paul with some of the eligible women that she knows\, and a romantic 
 relationship develops.<br />His efforts back at his Province capital of Mo
 c Loi result in a significant improvement in the intelligence effort and u
 ltimately results in the North Vietnamese commander for the area placing a
  Five million piaster price on his head &ndash\; dead-or-alive!</p>\n<p>Wi
 ll Tyler survive this serious threat and will his relationship in Saigon f
 lourish?</p>\nhttps://bplwv.libnet.info/event/7993510
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