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'...