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Lehrack, a Marine who served in the Vietnam War, draws on interviews with Marines and with men who fought with the 1st Viet Cong Regiment to offer an account of the first major clash of America's involvement in Vietnam. Code-named operation Starlite, the August 1965 battle was a resounding success for the Marines and a cause for great optimism about America's future in Vietnam.

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A tightly developed and very well researched and engaging telling of the story of the first major combat action of the Vietnam War. --The VVA Veteran

This is war at the small unit level-squad, platoon, and company--told in a 'no holds barred' fashion, wrack means carnage and killing, choos and intensity, heroism and terror. A superb book

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Otto Lehrack served with the U.S. Marines for 24 years as an enlisted man and officer. He was an infantry company commander during the Tet Offensive on his first tour (1967-1968), and the operations officer of a signal intelligence battalion on his second tour (1970-1971) in Vietnam. He has an MA in history from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Lehrack is the author of No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam and America's Battalion: Marines in the First Gulf War.

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