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First Force Recon Company - Sunrise at Midnight

By: Ivy Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Military Novels (Ivy Books)


Product Info

Title
First Force Recon Company - Sunrise at Midnight
Publisher
Category
Author
Bill Peters
Publish Year
1992
Pages
256
Dimensions
4x6.75x.75"
NKG Part #
2148187873
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

In 1st Force Recon you performed at a very high level of proficiency. Or you died....

In 1969, First Lieutenant Bill Peters and the Force Recon Marines had one of the most difficult, dangerous assignments in Vietnam. From the DMZ to the Central Highlands, their job was to provide strategic and operational intelligence to ensure the security of American units as the withdrawal of the troops progressed.

Making perilous helicopter inserts deep in the Que Son Mountains, where the constant chatter of AK-47 rifle fire left no doubt who was in charge, Peters and the other men of 1st Force Recon Company risked their lives every day in six-man teams, never knowing whether they would live to see the sunset. Peters's accounts of silently watching huge movements of heavily armed NVA regulars, prisoner snatches, sudden-death ambushes, and extracts from fiercely fought firefights vividly capture the realities of Recon Marine warfare, and offer a gritty tribute to the courage, heroism, and sacrifice of the U. S. Marines....