Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam

Hackworth, Colonel David H. & Eilhys England

ISBN 10: 0743246136 / ISBN 13: 9780743246132

Edité par Simon & Schuster, NY, 2003

Text block clean and tight in lightly edge-worn binding. 444 pp. w/index Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 15862

Synopsis :

In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the US Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary.

David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th—a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army's highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackworth's hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam's valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos.

Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. With Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, Hackworth places the brotherhood of the 4/39th into the pantheon of our nation's most heroic warriors.

À propos de l'auteur: Colonel David H. Hackworth served in the military for twenty-five years and received 110 medals for his service. He is the author of About Face, Hazardous Duty, The Price of Honor, and Steel My Soldiers’ Hearts. He died in 2005.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to ...
Éditeur : Simon & Schuster, NY
Date d'édition : 2003
Reliure : Wraps
Illustrateur : B&W Photographs & Maps
Etat : Near Fine
Edition : 1st Prtg.
Type de livre : Paperback