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were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley

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William Marshall Condition:Like New were dropped by helicopter intoWilliam 'the Marshal' (c. 1145 1219), knight, tournament champion, royal household official, warrior, Earl of Pembroke, regent of England, was in his day a paragon of chivalry. In the 1220s William's son commissioned a Histoire of that life & career. This text, discovered & published in the late 1800s by Paul Meyer, was the basis of Sidney Painter's 1933 biography. Now renowned French medievalist Duby explores it not for events, but for its witness to