Abandoned In Hell: The Fight for Vietam's Fire Base Kate - Hardcover

Albracht, William; Wolf, Marvin; Galloway, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0451468082 ISBN 13: 9780451468086

Publisher: New American Library, 2015

Synopsis

In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defences woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments - some 6,000 men - crossed the Cambodian border and attacked. The US regiment refused to surrender and held out for five days. This is an astonishing memoir of leadership, sacrifice and brutal violence, and of the power of heroism.

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Praise for Abandoned in Hell

"An epic tale of junior officers and NCOs salvaging a clusterf**k with minimum losses and maximum damage to the enemy. Nasty war. Great book."--Jim Morris, author of War Story and Above and Beyond

"A riveting, dead-true account in the tradition of Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once...and Young."--Steven Pressfield, national bestselling author of The Lion's Gate

"Abandoned in Hell is essential reading about the brave men who lived and died fighting an unpopular war."--David Hume Kennerly, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

"Wolf and Albracht have interwoven the history, the tumult of battle and the spectrum of personalities that turn up on a forlorn red dirt hill on the Cambodian border in the crunch year of 1968. Firebase Kate becomes a microcosm of the turn of events, the disasters that were the death knell of the Vietnam war. It's a story that grabs you by the throat and won't let go."--Tim Page, Photojournalist and author of Another Vietnam

"This gripping, gritty and cinematic blow-by-blow account of outnumbered Americans locked in a desperate battle with the North Vietnamese Army is destined to become a classic of its genre. If you read only one book about Vietnam this year, this must be the one."--Major General Paul Vallely, US Army (Ret.), Two-tour Vietnam Veteran, Fox News Senior Military Analyst, and author of Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror

"This extraordinary narrative about leadership, loyalty and trust grabbed me from page one. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to know what really happened in Vietnam."--Rocky Bleier, Decorated Vietnam Veteran and Four-Time Super Bowl Champion

"A riveting look at a little-known but compelling Vietnam War story."--Publishers Weekly

"Albracht and Wolf present a vivid, often gripping account of the attack by 4,000 members of the People's Army of Vietnam...This fast-paced narrative encapsulates Vietnam War themes, significantly the bravery of grunts and company grade officers and their loyalty to one another."--Library Journal

About the Author

William Albracht is a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and retired Secret Service agent whose twenty-five-year White House career included the protection details of four American presidents and numerous foreign dignitaries. Upon retirement, Albracht managed executive security operations at the Ford Motor Company before returning to his hometown to open a security consulting business.

Marvin J. Wolf is a decorated Vietnam veteran and the author or coauthor of many nonfiction books, including Where White Men Fear to Tread and Buddha's Child.

About this edition

• Publisher: New American Library
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0451468082
• ISBN 13: 9780451468086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 362