Abandoned in Hell: The Fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate

by William Albracht and Marvin Wolf

Book Overview

An astonishing memoir of military courage at a remote outpost during the Vietnam War--includes a foreword by Joseph L. Galloway, New York Times bestselling coauthor of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young. In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Firebase Kate held by only 27 American soldiers and 156 Montagnard militiamen. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451468082
• ISBN13: 9780451468086
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Dutton Caliber
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher