Used paperback in good condition. Cover and pages show minimal wear. Pages showing normal age discolouration. Rubber stamp on flyleaf and ink signature on title page. 159 pages. Published by Pan Books, 1971. ISBN 0330026631.

Ninety sweating Legionaries line the walls of Thet Ninh waiting for the Ho Chi Minh's massed battalions to attack.

For some, like Lt Revel, death went with duty. The Army was their life and the Legion was the Army.

For others, it could bring release or retribution: Ortega, who hung his wife and stabbed her matador lover; Streich, the homosexual with a lust to kill; and Wilson, whose black sweetheart knew the hate that was Alabama.

If reinforcements did not arrive they all had permission to die.