Legend: A Harrowing Story from the Vietnam War of One Green Beret's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines by Eric Blehm (AUTHOR SIGNED) - 2015

New York, NY: Crown Publications , 2015 Crown Publishers, New York. 2015. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First printing by Line Number. Signed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a small remainder dot on the textblock bottom. Book Condition: Very Good +; bumping to head and tail. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($27.00); bumping to head and tail; light rubbing to panels. Black paper over boards with black overlay on the spine with bright red lettering on the spine. 288 pp 8vo. On May 2, 1968, a twelve-man Special Forces team covertly infiltrated a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodia—where U.S. forces were forbidden to operate. Their objective, just miles over the Vietnam border, was to collect evidence that proved the North Vietnamese Army was using the Cambodian sanctuary as a major conduit for supplying troops and materiel to the south via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. What the team didn’t know was that they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base. Soon they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of NVA, under attack, low on ammunition, stacking the bodies of the dead as cover in a desperate attempt to survive the onslaught. When Special Forces Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez heard their distress call, he jumped aboard the next helicopter bound for the combat zone. What followed would become legend in the Special Operations community. Flown into the foray of battle by the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, Benavidez jumped from the hovering aircraft, ran nearly 100 yards through withering enemy fire, and--despite being immediately and severely wounded--organized an extraordinary defense and rescue of the Special Forces team. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.