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Stanton, Doug.
The Odyssey of Echo Company :
the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War /
Doug Stanton.
First Scribner hardcover edition.
New York :
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2017.
℗2017.
xix, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations, maps ;
24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312).
The recon platoon in Vietnam, December 1967-December 1968 -- The girl with the peaches -- Wandering -- Homecoming.
A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.
20170929.
United States
Army
Airborne Division, 101st
History
20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Regimental histories
United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Personal narratives, American.
Tet Offensive, 1968
Personal narratives, American.