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The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
The Killing Zone My Life in the Vietnam War Author:Frederick Downs "The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there."Army Times — In 1967 Frederick Downs arrived in Vietnam as a green but determined twenty-three-year-old infantry lieutenant. In the months of brutal combat to follow, Downs was to face the most lethal and loathsome dangers, all the while followin... more »g orders, keeping his men as safe as he could, and searching for the conviction and then the hope that the war was worth the sacrifice. He would leave with a shattered body, but a spirit still intact. The Killing Zone is his story, and it stands tall with the best books ever written about men in combat.« less
The author isn't the best at writing, but does basically just tell the story of his action over there and the horrors of jungle warfare and all he saw and experienced.