This text combines prose with illustrations created by combat artists in the US military. Dr Noble has assembled a collection of 153 reproductions printed in black and white, arranged with oral histories, letters and other commentaries to give the reader a more intimate understanding of the combat soldier who served in Vietnam and what he had to endure. Forgotten Warriors is not intended to argue the merits of US involvement in Southeast Asia. Rather, through the visual impact of the illustrations, the soldiers themselves express what the Vietnam experience was like in a way that aims to be different from other works on the subject. The main focus of the book is on the way artists saw the world of the grunt : patrols, life in the rear, fighting the terrain and weather, tests of endurance, the machines of war and the effects of combat and its aftermath. The reader is also given a sense of how some writers and artists felt about the country and the people of South Vietnam. To date, our perceptions of the Vietnam war have been influenced largely by movies, television and novels. Recognising this, Dr Noble enlisted Professor William J. Palmer, an authority on the media and their reportage of the war, to provide an essay that aims to allow the reader to compare his or her past impressions with the art works contained in this book.