A series of uncut, original letters home from a
young intelligence agent stationed in Viet Nam's
most remote province at the Cambodian border,
describing in graphic detail the fears, the
ambitions, the hopes, the explanations and the
quirks of a U.S. army outpost, including
descriptions of how "Reality and Headquarters
never meet", told during the
1970 Cambodian invasion through the spring
of 1971, when U.S. troops are being withdrawn
and the exhausted author readies his return to
"the World." Followed by reflections on the whole
adventure, written in 2015. This is an
unvarnished picture of Americans and
Vietnamese interacting, of emotional and
mental survival during the plague of a long
war.
young intelligence agent stationed in Viet Nam's
most remote province at the Cambodian border,
describing in graphic detail the fears, the
ambitions, the hopes, the explanations and the
quirks of a U.S. army outpost, including
descriptions of how "Reality and Headquarters
never meet", told during the
1970 Cambodian invasion through the spring
of 1971, when U.S. troops are being withdrawn
and the exhausted author readies his return to
"the World." Followed by reflections on the whole
adventure, written in 2015. This is an
unvarnished picture of Americans and
Vietnamese interacting, of emotional and
mental survival during the plague of a long
war.
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