num_pages: 240
description: “The enemy had a single kill me and my teammates.”Larry Chambers was still new to Vietnam in early 1969 when the LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division became L Company, 75th (Rangers). But his unit’s mission stayed the act as the eyes and ears of the 101st deep in the dreaded A Shau Valley—where the NVA ruled.Relentless thick fog frequently made fighter bombers useless in the A Shau, and the enemy had furnished the nearby mountaintops with antiaircraft machine guns to protect the massive trail network that snaked through it. So, outgunned, outmanned, and unsupported, the teams of L Company executed hundreds of courageous missions. Now, in this powerful personal record, Larry Chambers recaptures the experience of the war’s most brutal on-the-job training, where the slightest noise or smallest error could bring sudden—and certain—death. . . .
language: English
title: Death in the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970
titlecomplete: Death in the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970
genres: Military Fiction, History, Biography, Memoir, Military History, War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 230
publisher: Ivy Books