Blehm, Eric, <br/><br/>
Legend :  a harrowing story from the Vietnam War of one Green Beret's heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team caught behind enemy lines / 
Eric Blehm. 
 - First edition. 
 - xiii, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations, maps, portraits ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Street kid from Cuero -- "Look sharp, be sharp, go Army!" -- The darkest white -- Green Beret -- The secret war -- Anatomy of a mission -- Welcome to Detachment B-56 -- Over the fence -- The launch -- As bad as it gets -- Daniel Boone tactical emergency -- If someone needs help-- -- Last chance -- Deliverance -- Mettle for medal. 
<br/><br/> The author takes as his canvas the Vietnam War, as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968.  A twelve-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the jungle of neutral Cambodia--where U.S. forces were forbidden to operate.  The team did not know they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804139519 0804139512 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Benavidez, Roy P.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Army.  Special Forces --History--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Commando operations--United States.<br/>Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Search and rescue operations--Cambodia.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>U53.B39  / B56 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>959.7/04342