The odyssey of Echo Company
Subtitle: the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War
By: Doug Stanton
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Limited
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781476761916
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Tet Offensive, 1968; United States; Regimental histories; History
Description: A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312).