Publisher's Synopsis
Vietnam War, (1954-75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
This is an expanded version of the original memoir first published in 2013. It chronicles events that unfolded during 1968 and early 1969 when the author served as a young infantryman with Charlie Company, 2nd/60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. In that remarkable year, the events in Vietnam's jungles and rice paddies as well as the US home front were affected by the most aggressive military tactics of the Vietnam War. Most of all the book tells the true stories of courageous young soldiers engaged in mortal combat and their daily struggle to survive. The expanded edition contains several added chapters with a look back at previously unchronicled events from the author's Vietnam tour of duty in addition to taking the reader through four months of post-combat service to military separation.
