A Life in a Year: The American Infantryman in Vietnam

Imagine not being able to buy a beer, but old enough to be forced in to uniformed service to fight in a conflict with no front lines and and no clear enemy. The fear that men felt, from draft through to coming home is clearly communicated along with the sense of complete detachment from events in the field and world outside. The battle was to survive, and to achieve this required luck and...more

Imagine not being able to buy a beer, but old enough to be forced in to uniformed service to fight in a conflict with no front lines and and no clear enemy. The fear that men felt, from draft through to coming home is clearly communicated along with the sense of complete detachment from events in the field and world outside. The battle was to survive, and to achieve this required luck and skill, though getting home in one piece does not mean that you survived. It is clear that those who saw conflict in Vietnam lost something of themselves in those Jungles and Rice Fields and in this book you get to read some of those truths.   hide