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Also by Bing West:

The Wrong War, March 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
The Strongest Tribe, August 2008
Hardcover
The Pepperdogs, October 2007
Paperback
No True Glory, October 2006
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The March Up, October 2004
Paperback
The Village, January 2003
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THE VILLAGE
By: Bing West

Pocket
January 2003
On Sale: December 31, 2002
400 pages
ISBN: 0743457579
EAN: 9780743457576
Mass Market Paperback
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In Black Hawk Down, the fight went on for a day. In We Were Soldiers Once & Young, the fighting lasted three days. In The Village, one Marine squad fought for 495 days -- half of them died.

Few American battles have been so extended, savage and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons" (CAPs) are now a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of fifteen resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought and died. And why the villagers remember them to this day.

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CBS Sunday Morning - September 7, 2008