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The Hill Fights : The First Battle of Khe Sanh by Edward F. Murphy [Murphy, Edward F. ] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as "the Hill Fights." Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few are aware of the significance of the battles, or even their existence. For more than thirty years, virtually the only people who knew about the Hill Fights were the Marines who fought them. Now, for the first time, the full story has been pieced together by acclaimed Vietnam War historian Edward F. Murphy, whose definitive analysis admirably fills this significant gap in Vietnam War literature. Based on first-hand interviews and documentary research, Murphy's deeply informed narrative history is the only complete account of the battles, their origins, and their aftermath. The Marines at the isolated Khe Sanh Combat Base were tasked with monitoring the strategically vital Ho Chi Minh trail as it wound through the jungles in nearby Laos. Dominated by high hills on all sides, the combat base had to be screened on foot by the Marine infantrymen wh
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- Author
- Edward F. Murphy [Murphy, Edward F. ]
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307417121
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, History
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (58 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14