01978cam a2200361 i 4500 25148 25148 17941948 OSt 20190502000207.0 131114s2014 mau b 001 0 eng 2013045206 9780306821394 (hardcover) 9780306821400 (e-book) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc a-vt--- n-us--- DS557.8.K5 J66 2014 959.704/3450973 23 Jones, Gregg, 1959- 3212 Last stand at Khe Sanh : the U.S. Marines' finest hour in Vietnam / Gregg Jones. First Da Capo Press edition. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, 2014. xx, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Death in the tall grass -- The Battle of Hill 861 -- Khe Sanh Combat Base -- The Battle of Khe Sanh Village -- Muscle Shoals -- The walking dead -- "Should we withdraw from Khe Sanh?" -- "Hell in a very small place" -- The Battle of Hill 861 Alpha -- "Tanks in the wire" -- The Battle of Hill 64 -- "We are not going to be defeated at Khe Sanh" -- "What the hell is out there?" -- "Proud to be a marine" -- Super gaggle -- "Why are you leaving us to die?" -- "A military challenge unprecedented in this war" -- "I just came from hell" -- "Bitter hardships and blood" -- "If there is a god, why would he let good men die" -- "We made them pay" -- Breakout. United States. Marine Corps History Vietnam War, 1961-1975. 3213 Khe Sanh, Battle of, Vietnam, 1968. 3214 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2017-10-11 3 959.704 JONES 37146 2023-06-21 2023-05-20 2017-10-11 BOOK