"A wonderfully written book that takes the reader to a strange time and place." --Eric M. Bergerud, author of <I>Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning</I> <P><LI>Thoughtful, action-packed memoir of one American soldier's combat tour in Vietnam in 1970 <LI>Begins with a tense ambush patrol and doesn't let up through a year of hair-raising night watches, soggy humps through the jungle, and deadly encounters with the North Vietnamese <LI>Author served as a rifleman--as well as a machine gunner, tunnel rat, and demolitions man--with the U.S. Army's 25th "Tropic Lightning" Infantry Division and 1st Cavalry Division <LI>Notable events include the Cambodian incursion </LI>