A very different military novel. FIRST LIGHT is the story of Kenneth McKenzie, faced with conflicting issues of duty and responsibility as an infantry platoon leader. Its as if the Graduate has joined the army and is confronted with All Quiet on the Western Front. The chain of command demands adherence to orders but McKenzie soon finds his soldiers need protection from the fealty he owes to superior officers. Like most battalion commanders in 1968, Colonel Fishmuth, commissioned after Korea, having never led a platoon or company into combat, is in command of a full battalion of four line...