BOYS OF '67
From Vietnam to Iraq, the Extraordinary Story of a Few Good Men
Charles Jones
NEw copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006).
Foreward by Marine Gen. Tony Zinni, former CinC US Central Command. First Edition.
Photographs, index, 404 pages.
In what is sure to become a classic, Boys of '67 follows the careers of a group of young second
lieutenants from their baptism of fire in Vietnam, through the Cold War, and to the current insurgency
in Iraq. In Vietnam, they experienced the Tet Offensive, the siege at Khe Sanh, and the 1972 Easter
Offensive. They went on to serve eyeball-to-eyeball with North Koreans in the DMZ, and later they
participated in the 1983 invasion of Grenada, operations in Beirut, and Desert Storm. Some would
never make it out of Vietnam alive. Some would be crippled by wounds. All would fight like tigers,
and one would rise to the very top, commanding the Marine Corps they all loved. Features previously
secret battles between Marine generals and Army generals Tommy Franks and Norman Schwarzkopf. Includes
a look inside the Pentagon on 9/11 as well as an intriguing look at the divergent views that swirled
in secret inside the Pentagon during the planning of invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. One of the
"Boys" becomes the first Marine named Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. Also includes the story of
Staff Sgt. Manny Cox, who died in Beirut and is the only enlisted man to be honored by having a building
at Quantico named after him as well as the first official rebuttal by a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
to Tommy Franks' account in his 2004 autobiography of the way the invasion of Iraq was planned. A sweeping
saga of the United States Marine Corps.
Author Biography: Charles Jones is a staff writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is the son of the late Marine Lt. Gen. William K. Jones, Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force Pacific. This is his first book.
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