This book in paperback print is not in the cagegory of Philip Capoto's excellent Rumor of War, and it is not comparable to Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, and his The Things They Carried. The book is not near in the league with great historical writers of the period Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History, Cruel April by Oliver Todd nor Neil Sheen's Bright and Shining Lie or for that matter Frank Snep's superbly told final tragic days of a falling Saigon, Indecent Interval. I have certainly enjoyed reading and learning from these titians. But my tome does...