Loon : a Marine story /
Nothing could have prepared privileged-boy Jack McLean for the horror of Landing Zone Loon, a three-day battle that took place on a remote hill tucked into the border of North Vietnam and Laos in June 1968, killing twenty-seven men, wound nearly one hundred others, and leave several dozen survivors...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
[2009]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Nothing could have prepared privileged-boy Jack McLean for the horror of Landing Zone Loon, a three-day battle that took place on a remote hill tucked into the border of North Vietnam and Laos in June 1968, killing twenty-seven men, wound nearly one hundred others, and leave several dozen survivors to defend an ever-shrinking perimeter with little water or ammo. A powerful coming-of-age portrait that defines some of the most tumultuous events in our history, both in Vietnam and back home. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States by Presidio Press, 2009. Ballantine Books Trade Pbk. edition, 2010. Map, ©2010. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 240 pages : maps, portrait ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780345510150 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0345510151 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780345510167 (pbk.) 034551016X (pbk.) |