Last stand at Khe Sanh : the U.S. Marines' finest hour in Vietnam
(2014)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
959.704345/JONES,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, 2014
EDITION
First Da Capo Press edition
DESCRIPTION
xx, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780306821394 (hardcover), 0306821397 (hardcover), 9780306821394, 0306821397 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Death in the tall grass -- The Battle of Hill 861 -- Khe Sanh Combat Base -- The Battle of Khe Sanh Village -- Muscle Shoals -- The walking dead -- "Should we withdraw from Khe Sanh?" -- "Hell in a very small place" -- The Battle of Hill 861 Alpha -- "Tanks in the wire" -- The Battle of Hill 64 -- "We are not going to be defeated at Khe Sanh" -- "What the hell is out there?" -- "Proud to be a marine" -- Super gaggle -- "Why are you leaving us to die?" -- "A military challenge unprecedented in this war" -- "I just came from hell" -- "Bitter hardships and blood" -- "If there is a god, why would he let good men die" -- "We made them pay" -- Breakout