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The Odyssey of Echo Company
- The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
- Narrated by: CJ Wilson
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
A powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times best-selling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers - the harrowing and redemptive account of an American army platoon fighting for survival during the Vietnam War.
On a single night, January 31, 1968, some 100,000 soldiers in the North Vietnamese Army attacked 36 cities throughout South Vietnam, hoping to topple that government and dislodge American forces. The 12 American boys of the recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division, average age 19, 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. The Odyssey of Echo Company is about the young men who survived 60 days on the run from the enemy during the Tet Offensive, at the height of the Vietnam War.
Each young man lived 100 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 tell - until now.
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, The Odyssey of Echo Company breaks through the wall of time to tell this important story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
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- Stonie
- 21-08-24
Couldn’t put it down!
A truly compelling story and hard to stop listening to. Well written, well read and highlighted the foibles of the war.
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- Tom
- 10-08-18
A great book. I would highly recommend.
A great book. Harrowing and thought provoking in places. Also covers the life of the soldier post war, and returning back to Vietnam. The performance is great, at times making you feel like the reader was actually there.
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- Richard Martin 5095
- 02-04-22
Detailed first hand account of the Vietnam war
What a great listen. Fascinating first hand account of
the war.
At times in my headphones I felt I was engaged in the battles.
Well narrated. Now I’m gonna listen to it all again !!
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- MR DAVID REID
- 23-05-23
Incredible Story
Thank you Doug Stanton. This is an incredible story. What these young men went through, most of them just out of college, was quite astonishing.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-03-20
I did not want it to end, brilliant book.
Loved it, so well written and the narration was the best i have had the pleasure to listen to.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-01-24
Extremely moving, so young!
This book told a story that opened up a new world to me, I can remember the films on the news as a boy but didn’t understand the impact it had on those 15 years older than me, especially when they went home, tragic all round. I feel as if I know Stan Parker, thank you for telling the story.
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- Philip Mackie
- 26-04-22
Emotional listening.
I feel bad about giving this 5 stars as a story as it’s a personal account and deserves far more when you consider all that Stan and his platoon went through.
I think we the narrator dies an excellent job to portray the feelings and images of war in Vietnam. I could almost feel that I was watching things unfold around me.
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- NEIL B.
- 07-12-22
Excellent
A very good insight into the minds of a soldier fighting not only a war but his own thoughts and feelings, very moving at times and brought tears to my eyes at times , well worth a listen .
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- Douglas
- 14-08-23
Superb
expertly written and superbly narrated account of life as an airborne soldier in the Vietnam war. No holds barred, realistic and moving. Highly recommended.
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