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West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh
by
John Corbett
In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam War—and one of the greatest...more
Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages
Published
December 18th 2007
by Presidio Press
(first published February 4th 2003)
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jack Corbett was a marine stationed at Khe Sanh during the horrific 77 day siege during the Vietnam war. Simply written but able to evoke the feelings of being smack in the middle of the war for the reader. In spite of knowing that he obviously survived, I still felt the tension of every battle.
The author's breathless telling of Vonnegut-sized paragrpahs in plain, direct telling has an honest and direct presence for being told in the first person. An excellent account of risk and privation.
An emotionally stirring account of the Siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 told from the perspective of PFC John Corbett.
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