A Yale graduate who first served in Vietnam at age twenty-three recounts the full horror of the war from the ground up in 1965 when the battles became "hot" and his battalion faced a seventy percent casualty rate. Original.
- Genre: History, Biography + Autobiography
- Subgenre: Military, Military / Vietnam War
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- Edition: Reissue
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: November 1, 1999
- Date Published: November 1, 1999
- Author: Larry Gwin