It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Fire Base Illingworth: An Epic True Story of Remarkable Courage Against Staggering Odds by Philip Keith
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Fire Base Illingworth is an epic, never-before-told true story of a North Vietnamese Army attack and how the men of this nearly overrun Fire Base survived. In the early morning hours of April 1, 1970, more than four hundred North Vietnamese soldiers charged out into the open and tried to over-run FSB Illingworth. The battle went on, mostly in the dark, for hours. Exposed ammunition canisters were hit and blew up, causing a thunderous explosion inside the FSB that left dust so thick it jammed the hand-held weapons of the GIs. Much of the combat was hand-to-hand. In all, twenty-four Americans...
Fire Base Illingworth: An Epic True Story of Remarkable Courage Against Staggering Odds by Philip Keith is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Fire Base Illingworth: An Epic True Story of Remarkable Courage Against Staggering Odds aloud.
Fire Base Illingworth: An Epic True Story of Remarkable Courage Against Staggering Odds is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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