West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh - Softcover

Corbett, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0891418350 ISBN 13: 9780891418351

Publisher: Presidio Press, 2004

Synopsis

John Corbett was just eighteen years old when he was ordered, with his 26th Marine Regiment, to holding positions on the strategic hills overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Only days later they were surrounded by some twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers, outnumbering the American Marines by seven to one. What followed, was one of the bloodiest and most prolonged battles fought by the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War - the epic siege of the Khe Sanh. This dramatic first-hand account takes the reader to the heart of combat revealing in vivid detail what it was like to caught up in this infamous battle. Rare insight into one of the most brutal and costly battles in marine history Written by combat veteran Based on interviews of participants and contemporary documents

About this title

Review:

"REMARKABLE . . . This story, made even more poignant by today's headlines, can stand shoulder to shoulder with the handful of classic accounts of Marines under fire."
--Flint Journal

"In this short, readable account, Corbett describes his days at Khe Sanh in almost dispassionate prose and in great detail. . . . effectively convey[ing] the siege from a Marine grunt's point of view."
--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

John Corbett returned home to Nyack, New York, following his service in Vietnam. He now lives in Key Largo, Florida. West Dickens Avenue is his first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Presidio Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0891418350
• ISBN 13: 9780891418351
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288