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Red Thunder Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam
This honest, unflinching narrative presents the personal stories of the 25th Infantry--the division that inspired Oliver Stone's film, Platoon. Bergerud contends that the Vietnam War was lost in the field, where divisions like the 25th Infantry were obliged to fight in massive, expensive, and seemingly pointless campaigns against a stubborn, resilient enemy. Photos.
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
March 1st 1994
by Penguin Books
(first published 1993)
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Excellent book on Vietnam from the average soldiers perspective. No left wing filter is present, so there is no "slant". Just the particpants in their own words. Although the author does explain terminology and fills in the blanks where the interviewies speak of events as if they were common knowledge, it helps to have a working knowledge of the wars history.
This book is a literary fraud.
See STOLEN VALOR pp389-390
This book is a work of fiction.
See STOLEN VALOR pp389-390
This book is a work of fiction.
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