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mods: Steel my soldiers' hearts the hopeless to hardcore transformation of 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, United States Army, Vietnam Hackworth, David H. creator author England, Eilhys. text Personal narratives, American. Personal narratives. History. Personal narratives-American. Personal narratives. Récits personnels. nyu 2003 2002 1st Touchstone ed. monographic eng print regular print xiv, 444 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 22 cm In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the U.S. Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary. David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th -- a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army's highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackworth's hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam's valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos. Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. With Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, Hackworth places the brotherhood of the 4/39th into the pantheon of our nation's most heroic warriors. In January 1969, a promising young lieutenant colonel touched down in Vietnam for a second tour of duty. Having just completed the writing of a Vietnam tactical handbook for the Pentagon, David H. Hackworth had been ordered to put his counter-guerilla fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th -- a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army's highest casualty rate and considered its worst f…