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In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the US Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary.

David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th—a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army''s highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackworth''s hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam''s valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos.

Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. With

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      Publisher: Simon & Schuster
      Publication Date: 06/05/2003
      ISBN13: 9780743246132, 978-0743246132
      ISBN10: 0743246136

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the US Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary.

      David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th—a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army''s highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackworth''s hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam''s valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos.

      Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. With

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