This special edition ebook (available only as an ebook in epub or pdf format) is a collection of some of the best first-person writing about combat in Vietnam available today. Drawn from 24 full-length memoirs and interviews, all published by McFarland (and available separately in complete editions), these excerpts offer important, gripping and provocative stories from men and women who were forever changed by their experiences in the war. They represent the perspectives of Army infantry, forward observers, a journalist, a combat bandsman, Marines, pilots and nurses.

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Captain Michael Strand, United States Army (Ret.), was a boyhood friend in Toledo, Ohio, of Robert Franklin, founder of McFarland. Strand was commissioned in 1967 and assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. After jump school and ranger school, he was sent to the 6th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, Vietnam. Strand is currently the Commander of the 31st Infantry Regiment Association: the “Polar Bears.”

Edited by Staff of McFarland

Foreword by Michael Strand

Format: e-single
Pages: n/a
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2016
eISBN: 978-1-4766-2859-2
Imprint: McFarland

‘Nam Raw includes excerpts from the following titles:
The Hump (Al Conetto)
Lullabies for Lieutenants (Franklin Cox)
Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months (Micheal Clodfelter)
Alone, Unarmed and Unafraid (Taylor Eubank)
Killer Kane (Andrew R. Finlayson)
Stained with the Mud of Khe Sanh (Rodger Jacobs)
Scrappy (Howard C. “Scrappy” Johnson and Ian A. O’Connor)
Cammie Up! (Steven A. Johnson)
Pucker Factor 10 (James Joyce)
Crucible Vietnam (A.T. Lawrence)
Ghosts and Shadows (Phil Ball)
Eye of the Tiger (John Edmund Delezen)
Vietnam-Perkasie (W.D. Ehrhart)
Rice Paddy Recon (Andrew R. Finlayson)
Quang Tri Cadence (Jon Oplinger)
Vietnam War Nurses (Patricia Rushton)
Runway Visions (David Kirk Vaughan)
The Crouching Beast (Frank Boccia)
Combat Bandsman (Robert F. Fischer)
Tail End Charlie (Ronald John Jensen)
The Ghosts of Thua Thien (John A. Nesser)
Hornet 33 (Ed Denny)
War Stories (Conrad M. Leighton)
Fighting Shadows in Vietnam (Michael P. Moynihan, Jr.)

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