Written By: Bing West
Narrated By: Peter Berkrot
Date: June 2011
Duration: 10 hours 30 minutes
Summary:
Few American battles have been so extended, savage, and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such 'Combined Action Platoons' (CAPs) are not a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of fifteen resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought, and died; and why the villagers remember them to this day.