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Tell It to the Dead: Stories of a War (East Gate Books)

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A reporter who believed in getting his boots muddy, Donald Kirk visited various line units of the Americal Division and 101st Airborne during the withdrawal phase of the Vietnam War. His accounts of brave but unmotivated grunts ring true. Kirk also conducted extensive interviews with support troops at major bases like Chu Lai and Da Nang, where morale was even worse than in the field, and his accounts of the drug and racial problems that beset the US Army during the latter years of the war are also fair and accurate.

This book is a journal of Donald Kirk of the war in vietnam. He went to vietam in 1965. He writes this very graphically. In the book he talks about the different battlefields. He goes around to all the military bases and interviews soldiers and rights down notes own what they say and how they act. One time he went in to one of the bathroom stalls and wrote down some of the stuff the soldiers have written. He feels that the soldiers are already feeling guilt for what they have done. There are some good inciteful quotes from soldiers at war.