Charles Chuck Melson was the Chief Historian for the US Marine Corps, at its headquarters in Washington, DC and its university in Quantico, Virginia. He also served as a joint historian with the US Central Command and Special Operations Command, and is a recipient of the General Edwin Simmons-Henry I. Shaw Award for public historians and the General Leonard F. Chapman Medal for professional military educators. Charles holds degrees from St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland and Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. He and his family live on Kent Island in Maryland, USA.
Vietnam 1972 is interesting on several levels. It's about the hard-fought battle to retake Quang Tri during the North Vietnamese Army's 1972 Easter Offensive and the crucial role the South Vietnamese Marines (VNMC) played in defeating the NVA. It also is an account of the U.S. Marine Advisory Unit's role during the offensive ... an eye-opener to learn about South Vietnamese units that had no reluctance to take on the best the North had to offer-and to defeat them. * Vietnam Magazine *