The Village (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743457576)

The true story of seventeen months in the life of a Vietnamese village where a handful of American Marines and Vietnamese militia lived and died together attempting to defend it.

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.

Author: Bing West
ISBN-10: 0743457579
ISBN-13: 9780743457576
Publisher: Pocket Books
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 6.78h x 4.20w x 1.09d