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Moyers S. Shore
b. 1941
Best known for a vivid history of the Battle of Khe Sanh, this Marine officer wrote with the close-up detail of someone steeped in the world he described. His work remains a memorable firsthand-era account of one of the Vietnam War's most fiercely remembered battles.
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The Battle for Khe Sanh
by Moyers S. Shore
About the author
Born in 1941, Moyers S. Shore II was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and the author of The Battle for Khe Sanh, a military history first published by the Marine Corps. The book follows the buildup, siege, and defense of Khe Sanh in Vietnam, and it has stayed in circulation through libraries, reprints, and public-domain editions.
Reliable catalog records identify him as "Moyers S. Shore, 1941-", while Texas Christian University's Veterans Plaza remembers Maj. Moyers S. "Squee" Shore II as a 1963 TCU graduate who later served with a Marine squadron in Hawaii. That memorial states that he died on June 11, 1974, when his plane crashed into the Pacific during routine maneuvers.
For listeners interested in military history, Shore's appeal is straightforward: he wrote clearly, focused on events and people on the ground, and captured why Khe Sanh became such a lasting part of the Vietnam War story.