Steel My Soldiers' Hearts
The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Ar
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In this unforgettable true story from the Vietnam War, 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. Hackwort’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 military warriors.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
PROLOGUE
Debt of Honor
ONE
9th Infantry Division Headquarters, Dong Tam, Vietnam, 15 January 1969
TWO
Fire Support Base Dizzy, Dinh Tuong, 31 January 1969
THREE
Fire Support Base Dizzy, Dinh Tuong, 01 February 1969
FOUR
Fire Support Base Dizzy, Dinh Tuong, 04 February 1969
FIVE
My Dien, Plain of Reeds, 04 February 1969
SIX
Fire Support Base Moore, 19 February 1969
SEVEN
Southwest of Fire Support Base Moore, 26 February 1969
EIGHT
On Toward Danger, 01 March 1969
NINE
Fire Support Base Danger, 11 March 1969
TEN
Co Co Canal, 13 March 1969
ELEVEN
Sniper Control Center, 15 March 1969
TWELVE
Thanh Hung, 23 March 1969
THIRTEEN
Kien Phong Province, 25 March 1969
FOURTEEN
Kien Phong Province, 25 March 1969
FIFTEEN
Dong Tam, 25 March 1969
SIXTEEN
Fire Support Base Danger, 05 April 1969
SEVENTEEN
Steam ¹n¹ Cream, Dong Tam, April 1969
EIGHTEEN
Giao Duc General Hospital
NINETEEN
Fire Support Base Danger, 13 April 1969
TWENTY
Fire Support Base Danger, 28 April 1969
TWENTY-ONE
Dong Tam, 02 May 1969
TWENTY-TWO
Cai Be, 06 May 1969
TWENTY-THREE
Fire Support Base Danger, 18 May 1969
TWENTY-FOUR
Five Klicks North of Danger, 22 May 1969
TWENTY-FIVE
Fire Support Base Danger, 25 May 1969
EPILOGUE
Greenwich, Connecticut, 11 September 2001
AFTERWORDS
The Weakest Link
GLOSSARY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
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