Assault on Dak Pek: A Special Forces A-Team in Combat, 1970

by Leigh Wade

Book Overview

In the early hours of April 12, 1970, the NVA brutally attacked the Special Forces A-team camp at Dak Pek, seizing more than half the base--including the high ground and its 106mm recoilless... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804118361
• ISBN13: 9780804118361
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

OUTSTANDING SIR!

Once again Leih Wade has written an exciting true account of his final tour with Special Forces in Vietnam. Ive owened this book for at least 7 yeras and in that time have read it a minimal of 10 times! Mr. Wade writes beautifuly, he makes you feel your right their looking over his shoulder during the intense comat seen during the battle. this is one of those books you go to and just enjoy reading over and over again! This book will make you laugh and cry and yell out loud, probably one of my favorite books dealing with Special Forces in Vietnam. a must read for anyone going into the US Army today, this book should be used as a text book in our institutes of higher learning!! Yes its that good!! I recommend all three of his works, including his 1st Tan Phu and his 2nd The Protected will never know, all three are OUTSTANDING literary works!!

FOR SOME REASON!?

Talk about a surprise. This book was nothing like what I expected and yet FOR SOME REASON i liked it. I was assuming this would be a book written about a single action, graphic in its detail, and filled with warfare throughout...but that is not the case. The summary tells of a bloody bunker to bunker clean up and weeks of heroic action filled fighting but that is not what i found. Yes the book has this but it fills a much smaller portion of the book than I thought it would. Most of the book is filled with the ordinary, day to day life of a special forces soldier and yet, maybe, this is the reason that I liked it. I for one like a book to be action packed but there was just something about wade and his experience, even his visits to town or his quiet patrols, that was extremely interesting. For the first time I got a look at life for a viet vet outside the normal experience. Wade spent time in Thailand, especially Bangkok, and his experiences there are far from ordinary and far from boring. And even when, in 1970, Wade was back 'in country' he retells all of his experience, terrifying or monotonous, in an extremely interesting fashion. And to put the icing on the cake Wade gives a postwar history of himself and gives us a first hand account of the battle against normalcy in America when he returned that in some ways was tougher than his battle in Vietnam. His rejection by so many he had fought for effected him for decades and this narration is extremely useful to both the Vet and non-Vet. He concludes by giving his advice on how to return from war without bringing the war with you...great stuff. So in summary, even though it was not as action packed as I had envisioned, for some reason I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I have no doubt you will too!!!! Pick this cheap book up cuz it is a winner.

Great reading, especially for those who spent time in SF.

This is the last book in SFC Leigh Wade's series on his experiences during the Vietnam war. I think this final book is the best of the three. Wade tells his story with his usual wry sense of humor, and even the bloody, gory details of the combat action he describes contain many parts that made me laugh. And it rekindled a few memories long forgotten. The book covers the action in three major battles and numerous small engagements, and Wade tells it like it really was. Readers who need more action than there is in this book should probably be reading action-adventure fantasy such as the Mack Bolan series. The final short section of the book tells how life was in the United States for many returning Vietnam veterans and offers some encouragement and advice to other veterans who might be having adjustment problems. I highly recommend this book to veterans and non veterans alike. And hopefully, Wade will find a few more subjects to write about, as his style is honest and refreshing to read. -- Ron L. Helton

This The bestof Wade's three books, and all are great!

This is by far the finest book of its genre I have ever read, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the history of the period. The combat scenes are thrilling, and the characters are well drawn and believable.

A very action fill book!!

This book is a very good book with lots of action.there is at least 300 deaths and 20 battles.this has got to be one of the best books I have ever read.Leigh Wade has two other books out(Than Phu,and the Protected Will Never Know) whitch where just as good.