Battle for Skyline Ridge

“ An incredibly powerful account of a little-known chapter in the Vietnam War saga ” written by a CIA veteran who fought in the Secret War ( Booklist , starred review). In the 1960s and ’70s, the Laotian Civil War became a covert theater for the conflict in Vietnam, with the US paramilitary backing the Royal Lao government in what came to be known among the CIA as the Secret War. In late 1971, the North Vietnamese Army launched Campaign Z, invading northern Laos on a mission to defeat the Royal