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There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name.
Mark^Baker.
Dr Mark R Baker is a Tech and Start-Up Advisor and Digital Transformation Consultant. He is author of the Chief Digital Officer Handbook and Digital Transformation (number one in the category on Amazon in the UK) and is involved in a number of tech start-ups in Silicon Valley.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
April 10, 2025
I picked this book up from library discards. I’m interested in the Vietnam War and have a number of books on the subject.
A grunt’s-eye view; this book is as close to the truth as you can get. And not to be overlooked are the shocking stories from nurses and corpsman.
The brutality, drug use, boredom, inhumanity, pointlessness: it’s all there.
This is a good read for anyone who seeks a deeper (sometimes in your face) understanding of the reality of the front line soldier during Vietnam.
A grunt’s-eye view; this book is as close to the truth as you can get. And not to be overlooked are the shocking stories from nurses and corpsman.
The brutality, drug use, boredom, inhumanity, pointlessness: it’s all there.
This is a good read for anyone who seeks a deeper (sometimes in your face) understanding of the reality of the front line soldier during Vietnam.
April 11, 2025
Very well-crafted and organized true stories of many people's experiences in the Vietnam war. Brutal and honest and real. It answers many questions while pulling the curtain on the whole crisis and teaching the lessons that need to be taken from the conflict.
January 12, 2026
Borrowed this from a buddy who has a penchant for war journalism and writers of atrocities, crime, sea crime etc.
Reading this book was fascinating, at times I felt I was reading fiction and then would remind myself, that fiction was probably kinder than the truth. The book is brutal, funny, extremely sad, makes you question your own humanity and it’s a real page turner.
Whether you’re into the Vietnam war, the human condition or anything of that matter, this is a good read, even if it might make you feel queasy in places at the brutal honest of some of these testimonies.
Reading this book was fascinating, at times I felt I was reading fiction and then would remind myself, that fiction was probably kinder than the truth. The book is brutal, funny, extremely sad, makes you question your own humanity and it’s a real page turner.
Whether you’re into the Vietnam war, the human condition or anything of that matter, this is a good read, even if it might make you feel queasy in places at the brutal honest of some of these testimonies.
December 29, 2025
I read this book a couple of years ago. Insane stories beckoned by wildly raw questions. The accounts still stick with me today. The stories appallingly honest, and the organization of the accounts of people involved, I thought were beautiful and clever.
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