Ehrhart, as an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer, spent 13 months in-country in 1966-67, taking part in the siege of Con Thien and the battle for Hue during the Tet offensive, and earning numerous decorations.
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This review is from: Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir (Paperback)
Bill Ehrhart's work for too long has been neglected. VIETNAM-PERKASIE is one of the most memorable first-hand accounts of the war which America loves to forget. This memoir is gritty, real, and vastly underrated. It should be made into a film.
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Was required reading in a class I took about the Vietnam War. Reading this memoir rapidly went from a school assignment chore to pleasure. I read the next two books in the series the following summer. Ehrhart exposes his inner self on the page to the point where it can actually be somewhat difficult to read. He gave a lecture to our class at the end of the semester, and it was quite moving. Do check it out.
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