Guns Up!: A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War - Softcover

Clark, Johnnie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345450264 ISBN 13: 9780345450265

Verlag: Presidio Press, 2002

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Book by Clark Johnnie

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Updated with new material and photographs, this classic memoir of the Vietnam War by the author of No Better Way to Die describes how training, faith, and luck carry Marine machine gunner Johnnie Clark and his buddy, Chan, through months of deadly Vietnam battles. Reprint.

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THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE."
""Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie was only eighteen when he got there, at the height of the bloody Tet Offensive at Hue, and he quickly realized the grim statistic held a chilling truth.
The Marines who fought and bled and died were ordinary men, many still teenagers, but the selfless bravery they showed day after day in a nightmarish jungle war made them true heroes. This new edition of "Guns Up!, filled with photographs and updated information about those harrowing battles, also contains the real names of these extraordinary warriors and details of their lives after the war. The book's continuing success is a tribute to the raw courage and sacrifice of the United States Marines.

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• Verlag: Presidio Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0345450264
• ISBN 13: 9780345450265
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376