The Fighting Fathers

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The Fighting Fathers is written by Alessandro Giorgi and published by Schiffer + ORM. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 150730398X (ISBN 10) and 9781507303986 (ISBN 13).

An untold story of espionage, religion, and guerilla warfare in South Vietnam. During the early years of US involvement in Vietnam, the CIA helped arm militia groups in South Vietnam referred to as the "Fighting Fathers." The name was a reference to the Catholic priests who organized the fighting groups. The fathers fought alongside their parishioners to defend their localities from the Communist insurgency, the Vietcong. Author Alessandro Giorgi has studied the subject in unprecedented detail, conducting original research in recently declassified archives and interviewing former US intelligence personnel and Italian missionary witnesses.