Last Stand at Khe Sanh

Last Stand at Khe Sanh is a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars at a remote mountain stronghold. Based on extensive archival research and more than 100 interviews with participants, author Gregg Jones captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle.

“Washington Independent Review of Books, 4/28/14 "Jones recounts the battle with the naked honesty of the combatants who told him their stories...a commanding history, so detailed it reads in places like a novel...his cool, matter-of-fact approach makes the horror of the battlefield searing." Dallas Morning News , 5/18/14 "[Jones] skillfully draws the reader close to individual Maries at the Khe Sanh...[An] engrossing book...Jones, however, takes readers an important step further after Khe Sanh is saved and abandoned...In a moving epilogue, readers meet up again with several defenders and learn how their battle experiences shaped their lives moving forward." San Francisco Books & Travel , July 2014 "Gregg Jones in Last Stand at Khe Sanh has thoroughly researched the 77-day siege, and his descriptions of the day-to-day trauma for 6,000 grunts on the ground at Khe Sanh stands in stark contrast to his portraits of the headquarters folks in Saigon, Da Nang and Washington...The vivid contrast is superbly drawn."”

Praise for Last Stand at Khe Sanh "A powerful and moving reminder of incomparable courage and extreme heroism."--Alex Kershaw, author of The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter "The story about a long-abandoned fire base where too many died, which makes it a story worth remembering."--Kirkus Reviews "The long siege at Khe Sanh was one of the true horrors of the Vietnam War, and Gregg Jones gives it to us in all of its bloody, often hopeless, and heroic detail."--S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell "Jones fuses the panoramic with the visceral boots-on-the-ground view, creating an unparalleled and highly readable narrative of Khe Sanh."--Patrick K. O'Donnell, bestselling author of Dog Company "Brings to life one of the greatest battles in modern American military history... Vivid detail and powerful writing."--Jonathan Eig, bestselling author of Luckiest Man "[An] engrossing book"--Dallas Morning News "Jones spins his tale so deftly and effectively that he draws you immediately into the battle... A classic!"--Leatherneck Winner of the Marine Corps Heritage Center's General Wallace M. Greene, Jr. Award

Gregg Jones, journalist and Pulitzer Prize-finalist, is the author of the highly acclaimed honour in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream. For thirty years he has been a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter, writing for the Los Angeles Times and other US and British newspapers. He lives in Addison, Texas.

Last Stand at Khe Sanh is a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars at a remote mountain stronghold. Based on extensive archival research and more than 100 interviews with participants, author Gregg Jones captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle.

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