Night of the Silver Stars: The Battle of Lang Vei - Softcover

Phillips, William R.

 
9780312996819: Night of the Silver Stars: The Battle of Lang Vei
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312996810 ISBN 13: 9780312996819
Verlag: St Martin's Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Describes the February 1968 North Vietnamese attack on Lang Vei, a battle in which two dozen Green Berets and several hundred indigenous soldiers held off a vastly overwhelming force. Reprint.

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William R. Phillips served nine years of active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps, advancing in rank from private to sergeant before being commissioned as a second lieutenant upon graduation from Penn State in June 1963. He served twelve months in combat in Vietnam, from March 1965 to February 1966.

Phillips holds a Lifetime Master classification with the National Rifle Association and was a member of numerous prize-winning high-power riffle teams. He is currently treasurer of Bucknell University and secretary of the Investment Committee of the university's Board of Trustees. He lives in rural north-central Pennsylvania with his wife, Peggy.

Phillips is the author of six articles on special operations warfare. This is his first book.


William R. Phillips served nine years of active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps and is currently treasurer of Bucknell University.

William R. Phillips served nine years of active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps, advancing in rank from private to sergeant before being commissioned as a second lieutenant upon graduation from Penn State in June 1963. He served twelve months in combat in Vietnam, from March 1965 to February 1966.

Phillips holds a Lifetime Master classification with the National Rifle Association and was a member of numerous prize-winning high-power riffle teams. He is currently treasurer of Bucknell University and secretary of the Investment Committee of the university's Board of Trustees. He lives in rural north-central Pennsylvania with his wife, Peggy.

Phillips is the author of six articles on special operations warfare. This is his first book.

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They Knew They Were Alone.
They Knew The Enemy Was Coming.
But They Didn't Know What It Would Take To Survive...

In Vietnam, 1968, the enemy was planning the kind of overwhelming attack that broke the French at Dien Bien Phu. But while U.S. Marines dug in at Khe Sanh, and recon missions probed the Laotian border, the enemy proved elusive-until it struck full force on an isolated Green Beret outpost. In the early darkness of February 7th, two dozen U.S. Special Forces soldiers and their indigenous fighters were overrun, attacked by waves of ground troops, mortars, flame-throwers, and a weapon they had not prepared for: North Vietnamese tanks. The battle of Lang Vei had begun.

In this gripping, keenly told account, author William R. Phillips chronicles a desperate struggle for survival as the Green Berets held out against unrelenting fire from point blank range. Then, as the badly wounded Americans fought their way out of one death trap, they found themselves in another, still besieged with little hope for rescue-until a super secret, quick-reaction strike force launched one of the most daring missions of the war...

"The story of the Battle of Lang Vei is presented here in detail, with unswerving dedication to objectivity and accuracy by its author...I am pleased to recommend [this] book." -William C. Westmoreland, Gen., USA (Ret.)

"Bill Phillips has done a splendid job researching and re-creating one of the most harrowing battles of the Vietnam War." -Stephen Hunter, author of Point of Impact and Black Light

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Verlag
St Martin's Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312996810
ISBN 13 
9780312996819
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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9781557506917: Night of the Silver Stars: The Battle of Lang Vei (Naval Institute Special Warfare Series)

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ISBN 10:  1557506914 ISBN 13:  9781557506917
Verlag: Naval Institute Press, 1997
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