E. Michael Helms is a USMC combat veteran. His memoir of the Vietnam War, The Proud Bastards, has been called "As powerful and compelling a battlefield memoir as any ever written . . . a modern military classic," and has been in-print for most of the past 20 years. His work has also appeared in the books: Semper Fi: Stories of U.S. Marines from Boot Camp to Battle (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003), Soldier's Heart: Survivors' Views of Combat Trauma (The Sidran Press, 1995), and Two Score and Ten: The Third Marine Division History (Turner Publishing, 1992).