Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S. Army, 4th...

Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th ... | DAVID H. COL HACKWORTH, Eilhys England | At Least Someone In Vietnam Knew What They Were Doing

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	Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th ... DAVID H. COL HACKWORTH, Eilhys England Rugged Land, 2002 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 66 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the U.S. Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary. David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th -- a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army's highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackworth's hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam's valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos.

Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. With Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, Hackworth places the brotherhood of the 4/39th into the pantheon of our nation's most heroic warriors.

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EXCELLENT BOOK

I have quite a few books similiar to this & they are all exellent.

At Least Someone In Vietnam Knew What They Were Doing

Serving as my introduction to the work of Colonel Hackworth, "Steel My Soldiers' Hearts" could have hardly delivered any more encouragement to read the rest of his books. Having served as a columnist and media commentator for years have honed Hackworth's writing skills, and the synergy provided by his co-writer wife combine to produce a narrative that "Grabs you by the nose and kicks you in the pants," as Patton would have said. Documenting the Colonel's takeover of a hardluck unit and its transformation into hardcore killers in matter of months, the book covers daily engagements with a fierce enemy, and pulls no punches as Hackworth describes various generals, captains, and sundry brass as "idiots" or far more colorful terms. Hackworth himself dispatches about a dozen VC over the course of the book, and he dispassionately describes the wounds he himself receives, taking his eighth purple heart on this tour of duty. In short, David Hackworth is a writer and a warrior of the highest caliber.

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hopeless to HACK-worthy

This book is much like 12'O Clock High except with Vietnam War infantry instead on WWII bomber crewmen. LtCol Hackworth is called back to Vietnam to remold a hardluck battalion into an effective unit. The men rebuke but are soon won over. Hack never says-"Consider yourselves already dead." Like Gergory Peck said in 12 0'Clock High but the results are the same. Any leader, regardless of occupation, should find this book a leadership tool. It is also a very good read.

So much to be learned from this book!

This book id a goldmine of knowledge of counterinsurgency warfare. If you are a officer in training such as I the afterword carries advice that i have spent many days and hours getting from vets. for those of you wanting to learn to "out "G" the "G"(uerilla)" suck in all this book has to offer.

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Dynamic

The most informative military related book I have read. Certainly changed my view on a few things.

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