Soldier of Fortune Magazine Presents Valley of Peril

316 p. "A Tom Doherty Associates book." 1968: THE TET OFFENSIVE It was to be the great and glorious day: The Communist zealots who commanded the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army believed totally in the General Uprising, that moment when the people would rise to overthrow the Saigon regime and the ARVN. So they committed everything they had to the fury of battle, nothing was held back. The U.S. forces, the ARVN and the South Korean troops in-country were fighting with their backs to the wall. The name of the game was "win or die." Charlie Hamilton gets his orders: Take charge and hold, no matter what. His troops are some very shaky Vietnamese Regional Force, pitted against the dreaded 95th NVA Regiment. Once a peaceful rice-growing area, the Phan Hoa Valley has become indeed, for Charlie and his shaken outnumbered troops, the Valley of Peril....