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Hill 488 Mass market paperbound - 2003

by Ray Hildreth; Charles W. Sasser

The unforgettable combat memoir from a Marine who survived a Vietnam platoon action that resulted in the largest number of medals ever given to a single unit in what one officer called the "Alamo--with survivors." Original.


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For some, Hill 488 was just another landmark in the jungles of Vietnam. For the eighteen men of Charlie Company, it was a last stand--this is the stirring combat memoir written by Ray Hildreth, one of the unit's survivors. On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of the U.S. military, winning a Congressional Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses, thirteen Silver Stars, and eighteen Purple Hearts--some of them posthumously. During the early evening of June 15, a battalion of hardened North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong--outnumbering the Americans 25-to-1--threw everything they had at the sixteen Marines and two Navy corpsmen for the rest of that terror-filled night. Every man who held the hill was either killed or wounded defending the ground with unbelievable courage and unflagging determination--even as reinforcements were on the way. All they had to do was make it until dawn...

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  • Title Hill 488
  • Author Ray Hildreth; Charles W. Sasser
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pocket Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780743466431 / 0743466438
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.64 x 4.22 x 1.05 in (16.87 x 10.72 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004270232
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Charles W. Sasser has been a full-time freelance writer, journalist, and photographer since 1979. He is a veteran of both the U.S. Navy (journalist) and U.S. Army (Special Forces, the Green Berets), a combat veteran, and former combat correspondent wounded in action. He also served fourteen years as a police officer (in Miami, Florida, and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was a homicide detective). He is author, co-author, or contributing author of more than thirty books and novels, including One Shot-One Kill and Hill 488. Sasser now lives on a ranch in Chouteau, Oklahoma, with his wife Donna.
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