"A wonderfully written book that takes the reader to a strange time and place." --Eric M. Bergerud, author of Red Thunder, Tropic LightningThoughtful, action-packed memoir of one American soldier"s combat tour in Vietnam in 1970Begins 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 VietnameseAuthor 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 DivisionNotable events include the Cambodian incursion