The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
ISBN-10
1476761914
ISBN-13
9781476761916
Category
History
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2017-09-19
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Doug Stanton

Description

A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.

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