We Few : US Special Forces in Vietnam
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4.3 • 27 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War
In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officially, it was known as the Studies and Observations group. In fact, this Special Forces squad, which Brokhausen calls "an unwashed, profane, ribald, joyously alive fraternity," undertook some of the most dangerous and suicidal reconnaissance missions ever in the enemy-controlled territory of Cambodia and Laos. But they didn't infiltrate the jungles alone. They fought alongside the Montagnards—oppressed minorities from the mountain highlands, trained by the US military in guerilla tactics, armed, accustomed to the wild, and fully engaged in a war against the North Vietnamese. Together this small unit formed the backbone of ground reconnaissance in the Republic of Vietnam, racking up medals for valor—but at a terrible cost.
Customer Reviews
A favorite
This is one of if not my favorite Vietnam book and author. The narrator is fantastic and the book is exciting and mind blowing. Also the writers writing style with the narrator has almost this Hunter S Thompson way to it. It definitely feels like it. His other book I enjoyed a lot too.
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Amazing audiobook, well written and well narrated. We Few, and Whispers In The Tall Grass are my two favorite books. Although the book takes place during the Vietnam war, the author Nick Brokhausen aka “Broken trout” wrote in a way that any veteran from any era can relate, as veteran of the GWOT we few and whispers took me back to a place that was once a devastating hellscape one wanted nothing more to escape from to ever an euphoric memory of a time and place scary and dreadful yet one I miss dearly to this day and once called home. “Fare the well my brothers, I will look for you on the other side someday.” Nick “Brokentrout” Brokhausen