The Village
Book description
The true story of seventeen months in the life of a Vietnamese village where a handful of American Marines and Vietnamese militia lived and died together attempting to defend it.
In Black Hawk Down, the fight went on for a day. In We Were Soldiers Once & Young, the fighting…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Village as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m working on a novel which includes a couple of chapters of what it was like to be a Marine Corps CAP (Combined Action Program) member, and The Village chronicles the very first CAP unit and the enemy they faced.
It begins almost as a mystery novel but moves quickly into the friendly relations the CAPs had with the hamlet they were stationed in and the enemy that was omnipresent and personal in its hatred of the Americans.
I could not have written these chapters as well without this nonfiction account of how fifteen men established themselves in a village…
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