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A 'Band of Brothers' in Vietnam The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam. Andrew Wiest. Osprey Publishing. 376 pages; photographs; maps; bibliography; index; glossary; $25.95. Publisher's website: www.ospreypu blishing.com.
The Vietnam War continues to haunt the generation of Americans who came of age during the 1960s. In The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam, historian Andrew Wiest tells the extraordinary tale of the soldiers of Charlie Company, 4th Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, in Vietnam during 1967. Wiest views Charlie Company as unique in the annals of the U.S. Army because its "experience of being drafted, thrown together, and trained for war hearkened back to the very heart of the American military tradition, a tradition that came to an end in Vietnam." Such cohesion created a bond of brotherhood reminiscent of World War II's Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, featured in the popular HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers."
Wiest is a professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and founding director of the Center for the Study of War and Society. A former visiting senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, England, and a visiting professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy in the U.S. Air Force Air War College, Wiest is the author of several other books, including Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN and America and the...