Go Tell the Spartans
“We're getting strafed, shelled, bombed, and blasted. And it isn't even our damned war!”
War
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement finds similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before.
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A raw, unflinching look at the early days of American involvement in Vietnam. It feels like a grim, dusty dispatch from a forgotten front, highlighting the futility and human cost of conflict with stark realism.
grimbleaktensesombersteadygritty realismperiod piecepolitical dramawardutylosscolonialism
vietnam warvietnambased on novel or bookmajor1960s
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