The Undefeated: Rearguard in Vietnam [Paperback]

Kevin Hill (Author)

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Publication Date: April 27, 2004

It is Spring in America. By 1972 the war in Vietnam is winding down. At least that's what everyone thinks. Sergeant Mike Corbett volunteers to retrieve classified weapons from a remote Post in the Northern Province of QuangTri.The Americans are leaving. But the Vietnamese Communists aren't waiting. Corbett is caught up in the massive Easter offensive; on the ground before Military Intelligence realizes the scope of the enemy offensive.A few hundred Americans, mostly technicians, are stranded in the middle of Indian Country. Boogieman's out there; thousands of them. The Americans hold their ground and plan a defense. Their Special Weapons are useless in a firefight, so they are left with the same M-16 as any grunt. Evacuation is not feasible. At stake are Weapons Specialists and weapons components so sensitive that the alternative to overrun is Emergency Demolition. The Big Bang.The greatest fear is that a South Vietnamese collapse will leave the isolated Americans as virtual hostages. March 1973 the last U.S. troops will officially leave Vietnam. Corbett faces 365 and a wake-up.This is the Lost Battalion of the Vietnam War.

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Kevin Michael Hill earned the rank of Sergeant, twice decorated, worked in Special Weapons, (WMDs), with a ?Secret? security clearance, and is a third generation member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He has worked as a Research Analyst for State and Federal Government for twenty-five years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: IUniverse (April 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595313183
• ISBN-13: 978-0595313181
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,471,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Gritty and Timely, May 31, 2004

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Dennis Mansker "Author of A Bad Attitude: A N... (Olympia, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Undefeated: Rearguard in Vietnam (Paperback)

Nominally fiction, comprising two parts memoir, one part polemic and one part historian's caution ("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- George Santayana), The Undefeated covers a little known and less remembered period in the history of American involvement in Vietnam, the last year of ground troop action, when the foremost thought on everyone's mind was that they didn't want to be the last man killed in Vietnam.
The Undefeated contains a full complement of believable characters involved in some ugly situations in Quang Tri Province. The war was supposed to be winding down around them. It wasn't.

Full disclosure: K. Mike "Kevin" Hill and I are both members of Vietnam Writers 4 Kerry (see http://www.vietnamwriters.com). However, that fact had no influence on this review.
I am the author of A Bad Attitude: A Novel from the Vietnam War, also available on Amazon.