CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Foreword

Author’s Note

Dramatis Personae

Map

Chapter 1: The Trap Is Baited

Chapter 2: The Firebase Strategy in Vietnam

Chapter 3: “The Perfect Soldier”

Chapter 4: From the Frying Pan into the Fire

Chapter 5: “Build It and They Will Come”

Chapter 6: “It’s All Relative”

Chapter 7: Fire Support Base Jay: Portent of Terror

Chapter 8: Illingworth in the Crosshairs

Chapter 9: “It Ain’t No Laughin’ Matter”

Chapter 10: “I Thought It Was the End of the World”

Chapter 11: When Death Rained Down

Chapter 12: Judgment Day

Chapter 13: Repercussions and Reverberations

Chapter 14: Epilogue

Notes

Appendix 1: Letter of April 5, 1970, from Major General Elvy Roberts to General Creighton Abrams

Appendix 2: Letters That No Family Ever Wants to Receive: Some of the communications and letters that the Illingworth family received after the death of Corporal Jack Illingworth

Glossary

Bibliography

How to Use the Index

Index

Photographs

Acknowledgments

Also by Philip Keith

About the Author

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