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Book Review of Blood on the Risers : An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam

Blood on the Risers : An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam


From Dak To to the Tet Offensive, John Leppelman saw it all. In three tours of duty, he made combat jumps, spent months of fruitless effort looking for the enemy, watched as his budies died because of lousy leadership and lousy weapons. He saw the war as few others did, and lives to tell about the valor and sacrifice that outlived the dead.