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Author:
Blehm, Eric. author. (local)386592
Title:
Legend : the incredible story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez's heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team caught behind enemy lines / Eric Blehm.
Publisher:
Broadway Books,
Copyright Date:
©2015
Description:
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Subject:
Benavidez, Roy P.
United States.--Special Forces--Special Forces--Biography.
United States.--Special Forces--Special Forces--History--20th century.
Soldiers--United States--Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Commando operations--United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Search and rescue operations--Cambodia.
Summary:
The author takes as his canvas the Vietnam War, as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968. A twelve-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the jungle of neutral Cambodia--where U.S. forces were forbidden to operate. The team did not know they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base.
ISBN:
0804139539
9780804139533 (pbk) :
Locations:
AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)
PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington) — 959.7043 B646l

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