The Village

The Village

By Bing West
$19.99
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“A vivid and unbiased portrait of one Vietnamese hamlet in the grip of war…Exceptional insight…West has told this story with honesty and without embroidery, while bringing out its inherent human drama.”

New York Times

Few American battles have been so extended, savage, and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons" (CAPs) are not a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of fifteen resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought, and died; and why the villagers remember them to this day.