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A Life in a Year : The American Infantryman in Vietnam
A Life in a Year The American Infantryman in Vietnam Author:James Ebert Finally, here's a book that focuses exclusively on the life of the "grunt" (Infantry soldier in Vietnam. The voices of more than sixty Army and Marine Corp infantrymen speak of their experiences, from induction to the jungles and rice paddies of "Indian country" to their return to "the World." — From I Corps in t... more »he north to IV Ciorps in the south, and from the early days of 1965 to the American withdrawal in 1972, A Life in a Year offers a unique look at the grunt's war in Vietnam -- war as experienced from the lip of a foxhole, as seen through the eyes of the combat riflemen themselves. The experiences are woven into the narrative, giving the reader a true understanding of what it was like to serve in an infantry unit fighting Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars.« less