The Village
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7434-7881-6
- EAN: 9780743478816
- Produktnummer: 14618839
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'148 KB
- Abbildungen: + 8 pg b/w insert
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Bing West
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