Battle for Hue: Tet 1968

Keith W. Nolan's Search and Destroy immerses the reader in two years of combat with 1-1 Cav as officers and soldiers trained in black-and-white conventional warfare encounter Viet Nam's many shades of gray. Through personal interviews with the men who served there, as well as extensive use of official and personal documents from the war, Nolan show more brings the highs and lows to life. This is not the Viet Nam War whitewashed or demonized, this is the complicated reality of what happened to these men in that place and time. Stories of great compassion, heroism under fire, tragic accidents, and brutal payback illuminate the daily existence of frontline soldiers in Viet Nam as they struggle to survive and make it home. show less