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Steel My Soldiers' Hearts

By Hackworth, Col. David H.

Steel My Soldiers' Hearts Politics & History

Steel My Soldiers' Hearts

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In this unforgettable true story from the Vietnam War, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the US Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary. David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th—a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army’s highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackwort’s hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam’s valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos. Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. With Steel My Soldiers’ Hearts, Hackworth places the brotherhood of the 4/39th into the pantheon of our nation’s most heroic military warriors.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
464
Release Date:
2003-05-06
Publication Date:
2003-05-06
Publisher:
Touchstone Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0743246136
ISBN13:
9780743246132
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
457 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
214 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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