The odyssey of Echo Company : the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 1476761949
ISBN: 9781476761947
Physical Description: print
xix, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2018.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312).
Formatted Contents Note:	The recon platoon in Vietnam, December 1967-December 1968 -- The girl with the peaches -- Wandering -- Homecoming.