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Blood in the hills : the story of Khe Sanh, the most savage fight of the Vietnam War /

A soldier's eye view of Vietnam's fiercest close-quarters battle upon its fiftieth anniversary Khe Sanh's Hill Fights of 1967, as experienced by co-author Bobby Maras and told in this hour-by-hour, day-by-day account-were carnage on the ground, much of it hand-to-hand fighting in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maras, Robert (Author), Sasser, Charles W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, [2017]
Subjects:
Khe Sanh, 2nd Battle of, Vietnam, 1968.
HISTORY > Military > Vietnam War.
HISTORY > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Combat landing
  • The graveyard
  • Khe Sanh
  • Saddle up
  • The big picture
  • Take no prisoners
  • Good morning, Vietnam
  • A walk in the sun
  • Kill zone
  • Rescue
  • The cherry pie
  • Dear John
  • Ambush
  • A good war
  • The French lady
  • Wounded
  • Get on the chopper
  • The green parrot
  • The watch continued running
  • The pond
  • A night of imposters
  • Premonition
  • Dog biscuits
  • The FNG
  • The POWs
  • Pencil dicks
  • America's living rooms
  • The fall of 881S
  • Show time
  • Move! move!
  • Timber-r-r-r!
  • Dig in, marines
  • Knock that shit off!
  • Purple haze
  • Kilgore's starlite
  • The few, the proud
  • Sleep like the dead
  • Mushy Dianne
  • The ridge finger
  • Body count
  • The silver dragon
  • Skinny dipping
  • Picnic
  • Along the DMZ
  • Anything for R & R
  • The siege.