In Black Hawk Down, the fight went on for a day. In We Were Soldiers Once & Young, the fighting lasted three days. In The Village, one Marine squad fought for 495 days--half of them died.Few American battles have been so extended, savage and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons" (CAPs) are now a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of fifteen resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought and died. And why the villagers remember them to this day.
- ISBN10 0743457579
- ISBN13 9780743457576
- Publish Date 31 December 2039 (first published 11 February 2003)
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Imprint Simon & Schuster International
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 416
- Language English