The bloody monthlong battle for the Citadel in Hue pitted U.S. Marines against an entrenched North Vietnamese Army force. By official accounts it was a tactical and moral victory for the Marines and the United States. But here survivor Nicholas Warr describes with urgency and outrage the Marines' savage house-to-house fighting--ordered without air, naval, or artillery support by officers with no experience in that type of combat.Sparing few in the telling, Warr's firsthand narrative tells of desperate Marine suicide charges and of the Marines' selfless devotion to their comrades.

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Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: A Conversation with a Dead Dog; Chapter Two: The Longest Night; Chapter Three: Lang Co Village: In the Eye of the Storm; Chapter Four: Phu Bai Mess Hall Chow; Chapter Five: Wading through Deep Shit; Chapter Six: The Citadel; Chapter Seven: Whiskey Boats on the Perfume River; Chapter Eight: The Backdoor Approach; Chapter Nine: Phase Line Green; Chapter Ten: Coping with Disaster: A Dead Dog Day Afternoon; Chapter Eleven: Life Is Renewed in the City of Death; Chapter Twelve: The Return of Heavy Firepower. Chapter Thirteen: Sniper's LairChapter Fourteen: The Night Movement; Chapter Fifteen: Coke Bottle Glasses; Chapter Sixteen: Prisoner of War; Chapter Seventeen: The Effectiveness of Chemical Warfare; Chapter Eighteen: Aftermath, and a Dying Pig; Epilogue: Commanding Officer's Comments; Index; About the Author