First time in trade paperback, from the bestselling author ofMarine Sniper and Goodnight, Saigon. In 1965, the U.S. Marines landed in Vietnam. It was supposed tobe just another deployment. America was going to do what the Frenchcould not: clean up that dirty little brush war in South Vietnam.But the Marines were experiencing a brand-new sort of enemy-theguerrilla fighter.That year, the war's carnage became frighteninglyreal to television audiences back home-but the Marines were alreadydisplaying the fighting courage of experienced heroes. They hadquickly learned the first rule of combat: kill or be killed. With the explosive firepower of his military classics MarineSniper and Silent Warrior, Charles Henderson gives a startlinglyrealistic account of the Marines' hellish introduction to a newkind of warfare-and the raw truth about how it produced a new kindof American soldier.
