The Last Valley
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson military; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2004
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780304361489
Subjects: Battles & campaigns; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Vietnam
First sentence: ON A CRISP, SUNNY WINTER'S day on a red earth hilltop in North Vietnam, a young Californian named Howard Simpson was reluctantly fishing around with borrowed chopsticks in a lunchtime bowl of pho soup, while trying to ignore the stench of torn-up corpses festooning the barbed wire a few yards away.
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