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Some Even Volunteered The First Wolfhounds Pacify Vietnam
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Book Code: C4785
ISBN: 0-275-94785-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94785-9
192 pages, figures, maps
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/1994
List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Military Book Club Selection
Reviews:
  • In this first-hand account of the operation of the First Battalion of the 27th Infantry, Bradford weaves the tale of the First Wolfhounds as they sought to pacify the Tri Tam district in South Vietnam. General readers through faculty.

    Choice
  • Endorsement From Robert W. Lewis

    North Dakota Quarterly:
    I was hooked by the unusual style and, moreso, by the unusual approach to the familiar material . . . Articulate, sensitive, and intelligent . . . an unusually readable and persuasive narrative.
Description: Some Even Volunteered provides a marvelous description and a succinct evaluation of the life and the achievement of the American soldier in Vietnam trying to "win the hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese. In a style reminiscent of Michael Herr in Dispatches but still distinctly his own, Bradford relates the story of the First Battalion of the 27th Infantry Regiment (First Wolfhounds) of the 25th Infantry Division as they pacified the district of Tri Tam. The First Battalion--which had the highest body count of any rifle battalion in Vietnam--was air-lifted into an NVA rest area south of Dau Tieng (IIId Brigade basecamp) in the district of Tri Tam on 24 October 1968. They had been ordered to interdict the NVA supply line that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh trail in Cambodia through Dau Tieng to Saigon. They were expected to complete their mission in three days, but they uncovered such an extensive network of headquarters, hospitals, supply, troop concentrations and local support that the mission was extended to a week, then to a month, and finally, to eight months. Eight months later, the Wolfhounds had succeeded. Their fire support base was assaulted three times, their Brigade base twice. They established four independent forts, ran missions throughout the Third Brigade Area of Operations, and accepted the surrender of dozens of Viet Cong and NVA. In effect, they had destroyed an NVA unit of their own size.

In vivid, staccato prose, Bradford delivers a first-rate narrative. In addition, the last chapter, entitled, "The Will of the People," provides the reader with one of the best discussions ever written of Vietnam's assumed position in military history.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Trained to Kill
  • Killer College
  • The First Wolfhounds
  • In the Rear
  • Out of the World
  • The Ruff-Puffs Have A Party
  • Dau Tieng
  • Democracy in Action
  • Convoy
  • Pacification
  • Visits to a Small Village
  • It Takes All Kinds
  • S-5
  • Chieu Hoi
  • The Flying S-5
  • Little Did I Know
  • I Lie in a Pigpen
  • I Have a Restless Night
  • Let the Dead Bury the Dead
  • On the Wire
  • Wives and Children
  • Blue Blimps and Sweat Hogs
  • Night Attack
  • Dog Food
  • The Mayor of Ben Tranh
  • Arvns, Kit Carsons, and Murder
  • Where's the Bathroom?
  • Cold Feet
  • Village Idyll
  • New Life
  • Protection
  • The Rain Is Not the Same
  • Wolfhound Lieutenants
  • Di Cu Chi
  • What Was It All About?
  • Back in the World
  • The Will of the People
LC Card Number: 94-8344
LCC Class: DS558
Dewey Class: 959.704
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