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January 2003
On Sale: December 31, 2002
400 pages
ISBN: 0743457579
EAN: 9780743457576
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Non-Fiction
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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