-- Details the multinational history of close-quarter combat-- Covers trench warfare, urban fighting, night fighting, ambushes, and hostage rescue
-- Extensively illustrated
Despite the development of deadly long-range weapons during the twentieth century and a substantial increase in the killing power of all weapons, modern soldiers have continued to fight the enemy at close range. Here is an anecdotal history that brings to life the fear, intensity, and raw courage of close-quarter combat in chilling detail, including firsthand accounts of waging war among the ruins of Stalingrad, fighting in tunnels during the Vietnam War, springing an ambush, and even fighting with axes on the eastern front during World War II. The Whites of Their Eyes contains accounts from U.S., British, German, and French servicemen and covers both world wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Falklands campaign.
- ISBN10 1574884921
- ISBN13 9781574884920
- Publish Date 17 April 2002 (first published 23 January 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Potomac Books Inc
- Imprint Brassey's Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 298
- Language English