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The last battle : the Mayaguez incident and the end of the Vietnam war Cover Image

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The last battle : the Mayaguez incident and the end of the Vietnam war

Wetterhahn, Ralph 1942- (Author).

Summary: This stunning new book tells the complete story of the last military contest of the Vietnam War. Ranging from fierce firefights on a Cambodian island to a surreal black-tie dinner in the White House, the entire story about the hijacking of the U.S. merchant ship, S.S. Mayaguez, untold until now, is revealed in a riveting narrative of combat, courage, and governmental blunders that serves as a metaphor of the entire war. -Jacket

Record details

ISBN: 0786708581
ISBN: 9780786708581
Physical Description: print
ix, 384 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First Carroll & Graf edition.
Publisher: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Question -- Return to Koh Tang -- The Incident -- The Seizure of the Mayaguez, Monday, May 12, 1975 -- The White House Responds -- Communication Map -- The Forces Converge -- Shots in the Night -- On the Move Again -- Bring on the Marines -- Joseph Nelson Hargrove -- First Casualties -- Gary Lee Hall -- Wednesday of the Mayaguez Incident -- "Pilot to President, Over" -- "Gas!" -- The Die Is Cast -- Danny G. Marshall -- The Cambodian Alamo -- Em Son -- Load Out -- Last Chance to Avoid "Blowing the Hell Out of 'Em" -- Too Soon the Sun -- Khmer Rouge Defensive Position Map -- The Beaches -- Koh Tang Situation Map -- The Cambodians Blink -- "Marines, Over the Side!" -- Timing Is Everything -- "They're (Not) All Safe!" -- "Perfectly" Awful -- The Second Wave -- Platoon Sergeant's Notes -- Planned vs. Actual Attack on Koh Tang -- Pullout from the East Beach -- Koh Tang Situation Map II -- The Extraction from the West Beach -- The Aftermath -- Postmortem -- Return Visits to Koh Tang, 1996-2001 -- Last Full Measure -- End of the Mayaguez Incident -- The Mitochondria DNA Process and Full Casualty List -- Aircraft Descriptions -- Chronology of the Mayaguez Incident.