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Abandoned In Hell

The Fight for Vietam's Fire Base Kate

ISBN-13: 9780451468086

Contributor(s): William Albracht (author), Marvin Wolf (author), Joseph Galloway (author)

Subjects: Postwar 20th C History - 1945 to 00

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: New American Library

Publication Date: 19-03-2015

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£22.99

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About the book

In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defences woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments - some 6,000 men - crossed the Cambodian border and attacked. The US regiment refused to surrender and held out for five days. This is an astonishing memoir of leadership, sacrifice and brutal violence, and of the power of heroism.