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    West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh
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    West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh

    Written by John Corbett

    Narrated by Eric Conger

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    About this audiobook

    In January 1968, the 26th Marine Regiment was ordered to a place in the far northwest corner of South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. John Corbett, an untested replacement in a clean, green uniform, and his fellow leathernecks were responsible for building and defending the combat base, and holding positions on the strategic hills overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail as it crossed into Laos and South Vietnam from nearby North Vietnam.

    Only days after Corbett arrived at Khe Sanh, some twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base, outnumbering the American Marines seven to one. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam War-and one of the greatest battles in military history.

    Private First Class Corbett, an "ammo humper" in an 81mm mortar section, made do with little or no sleep for days on end. The enemy bombarded the base incessantly, and Corbett's mortars returned the fire, day and night. Extremes of heat, cold, and fog added to the misery, as did all manner of wounds and injuries too minor to justify evacuation from frontline positions. The emotional toll was tremendous as the Marines saw their friends suffer and die every day of the siege. Corbett relates these experiences through the eyes of an eighteen year old but with the mind and maturity of a man now in his fifties. His story of life, death, and growing up on the front lines at Khe Sanh speaks for all of the Marines caught up in the epic siege of the Vietnam War.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 3, 2004
    ISBN9780739310304
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    West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh
    Author

    John Corbett

    John Corbett is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at BNU-HKBU United International College, China. He is the author of An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching (2nd edition Multilingual Matters, 2022).  

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    • 4/5
      very well written and very intriguing. felt like I was there with him.
    • 4/5
      little bit too short to my liking but ok. good book
    • 4/5
      This volume is one man's memories of 77 days trapped in an isolated base in Northern Vietnam in January and February 1968 surrounded by Viet Cong and forces of the North Vietnam Army. Each day, he and his fellow 6500 Marines, faced shelling from long range guns and rockets as well as mortars of various sizes.forcing them to hide and live in trenches and foxholes. Only method of supply was by air and it was costly. Out numbered 7 to 1, they anticipated a fight to the death.Organized much like a diary but but mostly made up of short essays that cover topics such as "Mail Call", "A Reporter". Cooking". "Camera" and "The Sounds of War". He did borrow a camera for a couple of days and some of the photos he took are in the book.
    • 4/5
      I've read a quite a few Vietnam memoirs, and this one stands out. Corbett is pretty funny and insightful. He is very honest about the emotions he experienced and how he felt about the war.

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