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Last Stand at Khe Sanh

The US Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam

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Last Stand at Khe Sanh

Von: Gregg Jones
Gesprochen von: William Hughes
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The vivid, fast-paced account of the siege of Khe Sanh told through the eyes of the men who lived it.

For seventy-seven days in 1968, amid fears that America faced its own disastrous Dien Bien Phu, six thousand US Marines held off thirty thousand North Vietnamese Army regulars at the remote mountain stronghold called Khe Sanh. It was the biggest battle of the Vietnam War, with sharp ground engagements, devastating artillery duels, and massive US air strikes. After several weeks of heroic defense, the besieged Americans struck back in a series of bold assaults, and the North Vietnamese withdrew with heavy losses.

Last Stand at Khe Sanh is the vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic confrontation as experienced by the men who were there: Marine riflemen and grenadiers, artillery and air observers, platoon leaders and company commanders, Navy corpsmen and helicopter pilots, and a plucky band of US Army Special Forces. Based on extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with participants, Last Stand at Khe Sanh captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle.

©2014 Gregg Jones (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Asien Militär Neuere Nord-, Mittel- & Südamerika
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There is this genre of history literature named „combat porn“, I believe, and this is the prime example. It is just battle narrative, one body after another fed into the grinder, precise technical detail on caliber that’s ripping heroic flesh to shreds, then on to the next. No insights, just hero worship and gore. No causality, no consequence, no psychology, empathy, no inner perspective bar clenching of the teeth and soaking in adrenaline. People are not human, but targets that are triaged into OK, wounded and KIA. There is just action, no making sense of it, a purely meaningless „authenticity“. It’s a killfeed, as if you took Ernst Jünger‘s „In Stahlgewittern“ and stripped it of any last bit of literary and human value. The patterns are repetitive: Rank and name from so-and-so, signed up or drafted, shipped in via somewhere, insert lengthy action report with precise military gear enumeration, then body bag, hospital or next assignment. There is no understanding or insight to be gained here. Maybe this is exactly what it is intended to be and if you’re into this sort of thing, then this is it, but if you’re interested in history, you’ll not be learning anything new here.

Repetitive anecdotal battle narrative

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