Extraordinary valor : the fight for Charlie Hill in Vietnam
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
959.704337/REEDER,W
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2022]
DESCRIPTION
262 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781493063673, 1493063677, 9781493063673
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
End of the Road -- Boy on a Buffalo -- New York, New York -- Next Stop is Vietnam -- Soldiering On -- Brothers in Arms -- Kontum -- Rocket Ridge -- Opening Salvos -- Interlude -- Tuesday -- Wednesday -- Thursday -- Friday -- Saturday -- Aftermath
"The true story of American Special Forces officer John Duffy and South Vietnamese paratrooper Lê Văn M̃ê, as they fight to defend Charlie Hill, a key to holding Vietnam's Central Highlands during North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive. The battalion received the order to 'fight to the death,' and many of them do die as they make a last stand"--