Bing West

The Village (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Black Hawk Down, the fight went on for a day. In We Were Soldiers Once & Young, the fighting lasted three days. In The Village, one Marine squad fought for 495 days -- half of them died.

Few American battles have been so extended, savage and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons" (CAPs) are now a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of fifteen resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought and died. And why the villagers remember them to this day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743478816
• Artikelnr.: 49157443

Autorenporträt

Francis J. "Bing" West served in Vietnam as a Marine infantry officer, and later as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Dean of Research at the Naval War College, an analyst at the RAND Corporation, and a lead CNN commentator during Desert Storm. A frequent contributor to defense journals, West is also the author nine books.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword by James R. Schlesinger,Former Secretary of Defense
Author's Preface
Book I The Setting
Book II Night Patrols
Book III Defeat
Book IV "Work Very Hard -- Never Look Tired"
Book V The Challenge
Book VI Acceptance
Epilogue: 1967
1968
1969-70
1971
2002