Sympathy for the Devil

A modern combat classic, portraying a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's wartime experience. "The best Vietnam War novel I've read." -John Sayles, The New York Times

Hanson joins the Green Berets fresh out of college. Carrying a volume of Yeats's poems in his uniform pocket, he has no idea of what he's about to face in Vietnam-from the enemy, from his fellow soldiers, or within himself. In vivid, nightmarish, and finely etched prose, Kent Anderson takes us through Hanson'...