The Village |
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| Author:
| West, Bing |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7434-7881-6 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2003 |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster, Limited
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| Imprint: | Pocket Books |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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The true story of seventeen months in the life of a Vietnamese village where a handful of American Marines and Vietnamese militia lived and died together attempting to defend it. 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....
More Description The true story of seventeen months in the life of a Vietnamese village where a handful of American Marines and Vietnamese militia lived and died together attempting to defend it.
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.