The Village

by West, Bing
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ISBN: 9780743457576
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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.

  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Author: West, Bing
  • ISBN: 9780743457576
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 6.78 x 1.09
  • Number Of Pages: 400
  • Publication Year: 2003

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