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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon is a non-fiction book written by Alex Kershaw and published in 2004 by Da Capo Press. It became a New York Times bestseller. It tells the story of the eighteen men of an intelligence platoon under the command by Lieutenant Lyle Bouck.
The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division .
Going After Cacciato is an anti-war novel written by Tim O'Brien and first published by Delacorte Press in 1978. The novel is set during the Vietnam War.It is told from the third person limited point of view of an American soldier, Paul Berlin.
“First Squad, First Platoon” is broken into five vignettes, each dedicated to a fallen peer. "Serling wrote this story in his early twenties, yet it carries a maturity beyond his years ...
It focuses on the role of the First and Second Battalions of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, the United States's first large-unit battle of the Vietnam War; previous engagements involved small units and patrols (squad, platoon, and company sized units). It was adapted into the 2002 film We Were Soldiers. [1] [2 ...
Ben Tyson finds and reads excerpts from Hue: Death of a City, a recently published book by Andrew Picard about the Battle of Hue during the Vietnam War.The book highlights an incident similar to the My Lai massacre and is based on information provided to Picard from two men in Tyson's platoon and from a nun who escaped the incident.
Dafoe shares his memories of making "Platoon" and playing the Green Goblin in the ... the Vietnam War-set movie awarded the then-31-year-old actor one of the most famous death scenes ever filmed ...
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War is a novel by American author and decorated Marine, Karl Marlantes.It was first published by El León Literary Arts in 2009 (in small quantity) and re-issued (and slightly edited) as a major publication of Atlantic Monthly Press [1] on March 23, 2010.