Table of Contents
Authors' Note xi
Preface xiii
Chapter 1 Combat Landing 1
Chapter 2 The Graveyard 7
Chapter 3 Khe Sanh 11
Chapter 4 Saddle Up 19
Chapter 5 The "Big Picture" 25
Chapter 6 Take No Prisoners 30
Chapter 7 Good Morning, Vietnam 38
Chapter 8 A Walk in the Sun 42
Chapter 9 Kill Zone 47
Chapter 10 Rescue 54
Chapter 11 The Cherry Pie 58
Chapter 12 Dear John 66
Chapter 13 Ambush 70
Chapter 14 A Good War 77
Chapter 15 The French Lady 81
Chapter 16 Wounded 87
Chapter 17 Get on the Chopper 95
Chapter 18 The Green Parrot 101
Chapter 19 The Watch Continued Running 106
Chapter 20 The Pond 114
Chapter 21 A Night of Imposters 119
Chapter 22 Premonition 123
Chapter 23 Dog Biscuits 128
Chapter 24 The FNG 132
Chapter 25 The POWs 137
Chapter 26 Pencil Dicks 141
Chapter 27 America's Living Rooms 145
Chapter 28 The Fall of 881S 151
Chapter 29 Show Time 157
Chapter 30 Move! Move! 162
Chapter 31 Timber-r-r-r! 165
Chapter 32 Dig In, Marines 172
Chapter 33 Knock That Shit Off! 177
Chapter 34 Purple Haze 182
Chapter 35 Kilgore's Starlite 187
Chapter 36 The Few, the Proud 191
Chapter 37 Sleep Like the Dead 201
Chapter 38 Mushy Dianne 207
Chapter 39 The Ridge Finger 211
Chapter 40 Body Count 218
Chapter 41 The Silver Dragon 224
Chapter 42 Skinny Dipping 228
Chapter 43 Picnic 231
Chapter 44 Along the DMZ 237
Chapter 45 Anything for R&R 241
Chapter 46 The Siege 247
Afterword 254
Index 257
About the Authors 266
