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Author's Synopsis
Letters Home is written from letters home to family, official U.S. Marine Corps documents, military maps, conversations with fellow Marines, and hospital records. The author recounts his very personal combat experiences as an infantry rifleman in Vietnam. It is a candid and often uncomfortably frank description of the brutal conditions Marines faced in Vietnam in 1968. That year was the most violent of the entire war for the Marines; the operational tempo was extreme and unrelenting. During the long hot summer, the new Marine was challenged with ethical and moral dilemmas and decisions…
Format(s) for review: Paper Only
Review Genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Number of Pages: 216
Word Count: 71,000