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The Twins Platoon: An Epic Story of Young Marines at War in Vietnam

Categorie	Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer	#327420-XD20
Titel	The Twins Platoon: An Epic Story of Young Marines at War in Vietnam
Auteur	Sauro Jr., Christy W.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	St. Paul, MN : Zenith Press
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0760323879
ISBN13	9780760323878
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some b/w photographs, small map, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In the evening of June 28, 1967, 150 young Americans were sworn into the Marine Corps as part of the pre-game ceremonies of a Minnesota Twins baseball game. Before the end of the fourth inning these volunteers were being hustled on to buses, on their way to boot camp. It was a journey that would take them from a boyhood of baseball in the American heartland to manhood on the killing fields of Vietnam. Christy Sauro was one of the Twins Platoon, and in this book he tells what it was like—from the pomp and ceremony of induction to the all-too-real initiation by fire that would shortly follow: in mere months, he and most of the Twins Platoon were on the ground in Vietnam and promptly faced with some of the toughest fighting of the war, the Siege of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive, incl... (Lees verder)uding the brutal Battle for Hue. From baseball to boot camp to brutal combat, his is a firsthand story of American life being lived at the limits—and changed forever.
Pagina's	288
Conditie	Goed — Small tear dust jacket repaired.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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