The riveting story of the heroic three-month defense of Khe Sanh by 6,000 Marines--an epic confrontation at a pivotal moment in America's war in Vietnam
Last Stand at Khe Sanhis a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars at a remote mountain stronghold. Based on extensive archival research and more than 100 interviews with participants, author Gregg Jones captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle.
Gregg Jones, journalist and Pulitzer Prize-finalist, is the author of the highly acclaimedHonor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream. For thirty years he has been a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter, writing for theLos Angeles Timesand other US and British newspapers. He lives in Addison, Texas.
In Jones' recounting of the 77-day siege, we see the battle from the trenches and the bunkers mostly through the eyes of the grunts on the ground.
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Publishers Weekly A story worth remembering.
Kirkus
A commanding history of the longest battle of the Vietnam War presents the questions that history cannot answer.... In
Last Stand at Khe Sanh, Gregg Jones recounts the battle with the naked honesty of the combatants who told him their stories. He interviewed ninety men who fought at Khe Sanh and scoured all other sources-books, reports, official records, films, recorded testimony-to produce a commanding history, so detailed it reads in places like a novel...But Jones is a journalist (he was eight years old when the battle took place) and true to his calling: his own writing, as distinct from the men he quotes, is from beginning to end devoid of emotional lls!
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