Novato, CA: Presidio Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover - The author served four tours in Vietnam, although this book focuses on his third tour as company commander in the 1st Cavalry Division "Comanche Six" - it tells the story of young American infantrymen caught up in a war that could not be won, how in the process young boys became fighters and leaders - but he does not hesitate to report on the horrors of war, "of infantrymen cut in half by enemy fire, of a firefight in a sector littered with two-week-old decaying corpses, of leeches in every rice paddy." Glossary. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-89141410X.