As a first lieutenant, Bill van Zanten was a company executive officer in the first stateside Marine unit committed to combat in 1965. A year later, Captain van Zanten was one of the 'Magnificent Bastards' of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, fighting in the boonies near hill 69, outside of Chu Lai. Van Zanten's experience in Vietnam is very different from the pictures made in Hollywood. It had a soldierly professionalism built on sound and rigorous training. Dedication and boot camp forged the volunteer Marines of the early ...
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As a first lieutenant, Bill van Zanten was a company executive officer in the first stateside Marine unit committed to combat in 1965. A year later, Captain van Zanten was one of the 'Magnificent Bastards' of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, fighting in the boonies near hill 69, outside of Chu Lai. Van Zanten's experience in Vietnam is very different from the pictures made in Hollywood. It had a soldierly professionalism built on sound and rigorous training. Dedication and boot camp forged the volunteer Marines of the early war years, so that when the stakes went through the roof in Vietnam, commitment of man to man and man to unit was total. There was a soldier's intimacy, and a soldier's humour. Together they meant survival, and that is what this memoir is about.
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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. 020802347x. Book has light edgewear, name/phone # inked on FFEP; DJ has edgewear, crease to folds, 2 tiny tears and several tiny nicks to edges, spine slightly faded; 208 pages.
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Fine. Signed. First Edition. Steel gray cloth with gilt titles. Inscribed by the author to "Chuck, It's great to be your rotary brother..." on the half-title. Tight unmarked. No DJ 100% of this purchase will support literacy programs through a nonprofit organization!
