num_pages: 400
description: In Black Hawk Down, the fight went on for a day. In We Were Soldiers Once &amp; Young, the fighting lasted three days. In The Village, one Marine squad fought for 495 days-half of them died.Few American battles have been so extended, savage and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons" (CAPs) are now a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of fifteen resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought and died. And why the villagers remember them to this day.
language: English
title: The Village
titlecomplete: The Village
genres: History, American History, Asia, War, Biography, Military History, Memoir, Leadership, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 1272
publisher: Pocket Books