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This is the second review I've written because the first one didn't take. I'll leave out the foul language this time. The first reviewer (Annand) did an excellent job providing details and a synopsis. I was prepared to write a full length book report but he handled it with much more insight. I didn't serve. I did, however, go to the library one day and looked up the September 8, 1967 copy of the LA Times on microfiche. I was born that day. There was a section separate from the obituaries that listed the casualties from the Viet Nam war. There were around 50 casualties that day. I hadn't been looking for it but there it was. A little number I couldn't quite get over. This sparked my interest in the war and I can't quite explain why. Something about being able to see myself in that situation. WW II was too distant and in black and white. I don't see myself in the current war either. It's too stupid. I wouldn't have gone. Vietnam was different and this book hammered that point home. I was looking for something non-partisan about the war and this book was completely perfect in that sense. No anti war carping. No flag waving. Just a ton, and I mean huge amount of r

Who reads Grunts: The American Combat Solider in Vietnam?

Author

Kyle Longley

Publisher

M.E. Sharpe, Inc; Routledge

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282119673

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Business, Anthropology