Steel My Soldiers' Hearts

The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Ar

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Paperback, 464 blz. | EN
Touchstone | 1e druk, 2025
ISBN13: 9780743246132
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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.

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ISBN13:9780743246132
Taal:EN
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:464
Uitgever:Touchstone
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:28-3-2025

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<B>Contents</B><br/><br/>PROLOGUE<br/><br/>Debt of Honor <br/><br/>ONE<br/><br/>9th Infantry Division Headquarters, Dong Tam, Vietnam, 15 January 1969<br/><br/>TWO<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Dizzy, Dinh Tuong, 31 January 1969<br/><br/>THREE<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Dizzy, Dinh Tuong, 01 February 1969<br/><br/>FOUR<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Dizzy, Dinh Tuong, 04 February 1969<br/><br/>FIVE<br/><br/>My Dien, Plain of Reeds, 04 February 1969<br/><br/>SIX<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Moore, 19 February 1969<br/><br/>SEVEN<br/><br/>Southwest of Fire Support Base Moore, 26 February 1969<br/><br/>EIGHT<br/><br/>On Toward Danger, 01 March 1969<br/><br/>NINE<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Danger, 11 March 1969<br/><br/>TEN<br/><br/>Co Co Canal, 13 March 1969<br/><br/>ELEVEN<br/><br/>Sniper Control Center, 15 March 1969<br/><br/>TWELVE<br/><br/>Thanh Hung, 23 March 1969<br/><br/>THIRTEEN<br/><br/>Kien Phong Province, 25 March 1969<br/><br/>FOURTEEN<br/><br/>Kien Phong Province, 25 March 1969<br/><br/>FIFTEEN<br/><br/>Dong Tam, 25 March 1969<br/><br/>SIXTEEN<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Danger, 05 April 1969<br/><br/>SEVENTEEN<br/><br/>Steam &#185;n&#185; Cream, Dong Tam, April 1969<br/><br/>EIGHTEEN<br/><br/>Giao Duc General Hospital<br/><br/>NINETEEN<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Danger, 13 April 1969<br/><br/>TWENTY<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Danger, 28 April 1969<br/><br/>TWENTY-ONE<br/><br/>Dong Tam, 02 May 1969<br/><br/>TWENTY-TWO<br/><br/>Cai Be, 06 May 1969<br/><br/>TWENTY-THREE<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Danger, 18 May 1969<br/><br/>TWENTY-FOUR<br/><br/>Five Klicks North of Danger, 22 May 1969<br/><br/>TWENTY-FIVE<br/><br/>Fire Support Base Danger, 25 May 1969<br/><br/>EPILOGUE<br/><br/>Greenwich, Connecticut, 11 September 2001<br/><br/>AFTERWORDS<br/><br/>The Weakest Link<br/><br/>GLOSSARY<br/><br/>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br/><br/>INDEX<br/><br/>

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