Table of Contents
Maps ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xvii
Prologue: January 17, 1968 1
Part I
Chapter 1 Death in the Tall Grass 6
Chapter 2 The Battle of Hill 861 22
Chapter 3 "Get Up and Man Your Position!" 37
Chapter 4 Khe Sanh Village 49
Chapter 5 Muscle Shoals 62
Chapter 6 The Walking Dead 67
Chapter 7 "Should We Withdraw from Khe Sanh?" 74
Part II
Chapter 8 "Hell in a Very Small Place" 88
Chapter 9 The Battle of Hill 861 Alpha 99
Chapter 10 "Tanks in the Wire" 118
Chapter 11 The Battle of Hill 64 139
Chapter 12 "Home Is Where You Dig It" 163
Chapter 13 "What the Hell Is Out There?" 178
Chapter 14 "Proud to Be a Marine" 190
Chapter 15 Super Gaggle 196
Part III
Chapter 16 "Why Are You Leaving Us Out Here to Die?" 204
Chapter 17 "A Military Challenge Unprecedented in This War" 217
Chapter 18 "I Just Came from Hell" 227
Chapter 19 "Bitter Hardships and Blood" 235
Chapter 20 "The Agony of Khe Sanh" 249
Chapter 21 "We Made Them Pay" 254
Chapter 22 Breakout 262
Epilogue 278
Notes 297
Sources 335
Bibliography 337
Index 345