Hackworth Colonel David England Eilhys (4 results)

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. B&W Photographs & Maps (illustrator). 1st Prtg. Text block clean and tight in lightly edge-worn binding. 444 pp. w/index Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Jacket is in brodart, light wear. Boards have light wear. Usual library/discard markings. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex-Library.

Quarter Cloth, Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (in mylar). B&W Photographs/Maps/Graphs/Charts (illustrator). Reprint. Mapped end papers, b&w photographs, textblock is clean and tight. No remainder marks; Minimally bumped at head and foot of spine. Unclipped dust jacket, lightly shelf worn; 441p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition gray boards with a black spine and silver front cover and spine lettering, contained in a fine condition color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Prologue: Debt of Honor; Preliminary Page Quote from Henry V, Act IV, Scene I; Epilogue: Greenwich, Connecticut, 11 September 2001; Afterword: The Weakest Link; Glossary; and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. "Colonel David H. Hackworth, one of America's most decorated soldiers, lays bare his most daring and legendary tour of duty.1966: With a full year of Vietnam combat and five months of intense in-country after-action analysis under his pistol belt, Hackworth pens the classic tactical handbook Vietnam Primer with military historian Samuel Marshall. In a radical shift from the World War II- era tactics then employed in Vietnam, Hackworth stresses the necessity of using disciplined, small units of well-rained men to best fight the hit-and-run warfare of the elusive Viet Cong. "Out-G-ing," he called his tactics. 1969: Hackworth's expertise lands him back in Vietnam. The Army's message is clear - put up or shut up. Given the "hopeless" 4/39th - an infantry battalion of poorly led draftees with one of the Army's worst casualty rates - Hackworth leads from up front and finds the best in every one of his grunts. Together they take a page from the VC, write their own book, and become the meanest in the Mekong Delta - the Hardcore Recondos. 2002: With the U.S. again facing elusive insurgent foes - and the hit-and-run tactics of the international terror networks we're presently up against - the 4/39th Hardcore Battalion's successes provide hard-won lessons-learned that are more applicable now than ever. A tour de force of front-line combat action, Steel My Soldiers' Hearts takes readers alongside sniper missions, into grunt ambush actions, above fields of the fire with hard-hitting helicopter strikes, and inside the quagmire of command politics. Hackworth graduates the Mekong Delta brotherhood into the pantheon of our nation's most heroic and effective warriors." - from the inner front jacket flap.