Legend : a harrowing story from the vietnam war of one green beret's heroic mission to rescue a special forces team caught behid enemy lines /
Eric Blehm.
- New York : Crown Publishers, 2015
- xiii, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
The author takes as his canvas the Vietnam War, as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968. A twelve-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the jungle of neutral Cambodia--where U.S. forces were forbidden to operate. The team did not know they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base.
9780804139519 (hbk.) : USD27.00
SOLDIERS --UNITED STATES --BIOGRAPHY COMMANDO TROOPS SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS