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The Odyssey of Echo Company - The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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The Odyssey of Echo Company - The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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List price R496
Loot Price R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
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SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY
THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS' AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE
YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and
Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an American army
platoon fighting for survival during the Vietnam War in "an
important book....not just a battle story--it's also about the home
front" (The Today show). On January 31, 1968, as many as 100,000
guerilla fighters and soldiers in the North Vietnamese Army
attacked thirty-six cities throughout South Vietnam, hoping to
dislodge American forces during one of the vital turning points of
the Vietnam War. Alongside other young American soldiers in an Army
reconnaissance platoon (Echo Company, 1/501) of the 101st Airborne
Division, Stanley Parker, the nineteen-year-old son of a Texan
ironworker, was suddenly thrust into savage combat, having been
in-country only a few weeks. As Stan and his platoon-mates, many of
whom had enlisted in the Army, eager to become paratroopers, moved
from hot zone to hot zone, the extreme physical and mental stresses
of Echo Company's day-to-day existence, involving ambushes and
attacks, grueling machine-gun battles, and impossibly dangerous
rescues of wounded comrades, pushed them all to their limits and
forged them into a lifelong brotherhood. The war became their fight
for survival. When they came home, some encountered a bitterly
divided country that didn't understand what they had survived.
Returning to the small farms, beach towns, and big cities where
they grew up, many of the men in the platoon fell silent, knowing
that few of their countrymen wanted to hear the stories they lived
to tell--until now. Based on interviews, personal letters, and Army
after-action reports, The Odyssey of Echo Company recounts the
searing tale of wartime service and homecoming of ordinary young
American men in an extraordinary time and confirms Doug Stanton's
prominence as an unparalleled storyteller of our age.
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