Review by Travis Starnes Fire Base Illingworth looks at one small area of the Vietnam conflict, focusing on an assault on an American Firebase near the Cambodian border. The book is a straight up history but told in a very narrative style that I have always felt works for this narrowly focused type of history. The author clearly has an affinity for this area of the war and this is not his first history about it. He previously wrote a book about a small conflict just days before the events in Fire Base Illingworth and involving some of the same men. If anything this book is a continuation of that previous work, although he does a good job recapping the events of his previous book for readers not familiar with it. Keith’s writing is excellent and he clearly has talent as a military historian, a very specific skill set to… Read more »
