First time in trade paperback, from the bestselling author of
Marine Sniper and Goodnight, Saigon.
In 1965, the U.S. Marines landed in Vietnam. It was supposed to
be just another deployment. America was going to do what the French
could not: clean up that dirty little brush war in South Vietnam.
But the Marines were experiencing a brand-new sort of enemy-the
guerrilla fighter.That year, the war''s carnage became frighteningly
real to television audiences back home-but the Marines were already
displaying the fighting courage of experienced heroes. They had
quickly learned the first rule of combat: kill or be killed.
With the explosive firepower of his military classics Marine
Sniper and Silent Warrior, Charles Henderson gives a startlingly
realistic account of the Marines'' hellish introduction to a new
kind of warfare-and the raw truth about how it produced a new kind
of American soldier.
關於作者:
Charles Henderson''s distinguished career in the U.S. Marine
Corps spanned from Vietnam to the Gulf War, after which he retired
as a Chief Warrant Officer. He is the author of the
critically-acclaimed military classics Marine Sniper and Silent
Warrior, which first chronicled the exploits of U.S.M.C. sniper
Carlos Hathcock. His most recent book is Goodnight, Saigon.