The author fought as a lieutenant in two wars in Vietnam. The first was a counterinsurgency against Viet Cong guerrillas that people today still do not understand. The second was a conventional war against the North Vietnamese Army. The book is both a memoir of personal experiences written over twenty years and a historical document backed up by extensive research of previously classified information. You will feel like you are living alongside the author as you and he together undergo the privations of war and the rigors of combat. You will learn the stories of his comrades as they lived, fought and died and whose names appear on the Vietnam Wall today. Lieutenant Booth served as a forward observer with two rifle companies, gunnery officer in an artillery battery, and a fire support coordinator with an infantry battalion where he lived a primitive existence. Ammunition, water and food were heli-lifted in and dead and wounded were held-lifted out.