Foxtrot Ridge: A Battle Remembered

On May 28, 1968 the 88 Marines of Foxtrot Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment were engaged by an NVA battalion of over 500 men near Khe Sanh. The resulting fight, has come to be known as the Battle of Foxtrot Ridge. The fighting, much of it in pre-dawn darkness was fierce and confusing. When it was over, the Marines had suffered 13 men killed and 44 wounded, killing 230 of the enemy during the nine-hour battle. Vandamere Press is very proud to offer Foxtrot Ridge by Mark W. Wooduff, author of the highly-regarded Vietnam history, Unheralded Victory. Foxtrot Ridge is a collection of the first-person battle recollections from over 20 survivors of the battle, including the author, which tells the story of the battle in a very personal and poignant way. At times filled with the physical sights, sounds, and smells of battle, while at other times, overtaken by pure emotion, Foxtrot Ridge is a unique and powerful view of war all too often not seen. The battle of Foxtrot Ridge was not a "deciding" battle, it was not special or unique, and remains only a footnote in most histories of the war. Yet it was battles like this, fierce battles fought at the 100-man company level, that tell the real story of the American fighting man in Vietnam. Taken as a group the battles were the Vietnam War.Mark W. Woodruff is the author of 'Foxtrot Ridge: A Battle Remembered', published 2002 under ISBN 9780918339584 and ISBN 0918339588.