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Book

The odyssey of Echo Company : the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War

Call Number

  • 959.7043 S7921 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, 2017.

Physical Description

xix, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

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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