Outside the Wire

A wonderfully written book that takes the reader to a strange time and place. --Eric M. Bergerud, author of Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning

• Thoughtful, action-packed memoir of one American soldier's combat tour in Vietnam in 1970
• Begins with a tense ambush patrol and doesn't let up through a year of hair-raising night watches, soggy humps through the jungle, and deadly encounters with the North Vietnamese
• Author served as a rifleman--as well as a machine gunner, tunnel rat, and demolitions ma...