Author guest post from Ed Mann.

I expect that many readers will pick up this book expecting to read an interesting account of a young man who flunked out of Junior College and ended up walking point through the deadly jungles of 1969 Vietnam. They truly will get a readable book with vivid descriptions that will make the jungle come alive and adrenaline-pumping scenes of danger…and then they’ll get a whole lot more.

In his review for the VVA, Harvey Weiner describes it as, “a beautifully written, exquisitely detailed Vietnam War memoir, [that] was published 55 years after the actual events. Mann was a college drop-out, yet this book is almost a literary work of art, which I urge you to read, as no review can really do it justice.” He concludes his review by writing, “My advice: Read this book and you will almost experience Ed Mann’s war and may agree with me that it is one of the best Vietnam War memoirs you have ever read.”

Written in a first person, non-fiction, narrative style that doesn’t lecture, it provides a deeply personal portrayal of what Mann saw and did, and how the experience was changing him and the men serving with him. That’s significant, but even more remarkable is that although it’s told from the narrow perspective of a low ranking enlisted man existing in a closed environment, this memoir provides crystal clear clarity to the confounding questions of why those holding political power or commanding troops so often make miserably poor decisions; mistakes that are inevitably paid for by the soldiers they’ve sent to do the actual killing and dying.

A wolf in sheeps’s clothing, this memoir has teeth that rip apart some common wisdoms about men at war and those who send and command them.

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