Edward F. Murphy

Semper Fi: Vietnam

From Da Nang to the DMZ, Marine Corps Campaigns, 1965-1975

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From their early days in 1965 when the order of the day was to drive the insurgent Viet Cong from the villages around Da Nang to the final, dramatic evacuation of Saigon ten years later, Semper Fi—Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark, riveting detail.Acclimating to their strange new surroundings occupied the Marines' first few weeks in South Vietnam. . . . Throughout the day, peasants dressed in pajama-like clothing and sporting conical hats worked the paddies behind the heaving water buffalo. . . .If daytime scenes appeared bucolic, the arrival of sunset quickly changed that perception. Gunfire an… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-307-41661-2
EAN: 9780307416612
Produktnummer: 15733752
Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'810 KB

Über den Autor

Edward F. Murphy is a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. He is the author of a three-volume series on Medal of Honor recipients: Heroes of WWII, Korean War Heroes, and Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes, as well two Vietnam War histories: Dak To and The Hill Fights. He livesFrom their early days in 1965 when the order of the day was to drive the insurgent Viet Cong from the villages around Da Nang to the final, dramatic evacuation of Saigon ten years later, Semper Fi—Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark, riveting detail.