{"product_id":"2940170653751","title":"The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War","description":"A powerful work of literary military history from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eIn Harm's Way\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHorse Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003eamp;mdash;the harrowing and redemptive account of an American army platoon fighting for survival during the Vietnam War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a single night, January 31, 1968, some 100,000 soldiers in the North Vietnamese Army attacked thirty-six cities throughout South Vietnam, hoping to topple that government and dislodge American forces. The twelve American boys of the recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division, average age nineteen, are from small farms, California beach towns, and big cities like Chicago, and they are cast into a war they neither understand, nor, ultimately, feel they can win. The fighting was hand-to-hand, nonstop, and waged in endless small battles that forged this group into a lifelong brotherhood of survivors. \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey of Echo Company\u003c\/i\u003e is about the young men who survived sixty days on the run from the enemy during the Tet Offensive, at the height of the Vietnam War.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Each young man lived one hundred years in these days and came home to a country that did not understand, and didn't try to understand, what they had survived. They came home winners because they were alive; but were losers for having fought there. When they arrived, they landed in San Francisco, took off their uniforms, and walked back into America, where they fell silent and realized that not many wanted to hear the remarkable story they had to tellamp;mdash;until now.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Based on hundreds of hours of interviews, dozens of detailed letters written to and from Echo Company soldiers, a huge trove of Pentagon after-action reports, and travel to the scenes of battle with the American soldiers and some of their Vietnamese enemy soldiers, \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey of Echo Company \u003c\/i\u003ebreaks through the wall of time to tell this important story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100020097264,"sku":"2940170653751","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170653751_p0.jpg?v=1763807682","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170653751","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}