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 enlarge | Author: Ed Kugler
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 218419
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0804118752
Dewey Decimal Number: 959.7043092
EAN: 9780804118750
ASIN: 0804118752
Publication Date: May 29, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Good Story February 18, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's about a small town boy who reads a book about the Marines, joins up, and then finds himself in Nam. It's very different from what he thought it would be. This book will keep your attention but it ends abruptly when his tours are over.
Excellent Marine 'Sniper' book August 22, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Unlike many of this type of book, it does not have dull or boring spots. But, it does a good job of sucking you in personally to what went on & what/how the author was thinking.
I felt it was a very honest book & definitely one of the best personal post-Vietnam books of the many that I have read.
I recommend this to anyone - novices or people very familiar with the genre.
 Great Story June 26, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I met Ed Kugler while installing a vinyl floor in his kitchen and noticed he had a little magnet on his refridgerator of the book cover. I found it quite amazing that this nice soft spoken teddy bear of a man was a marine sniper. He ended up giving me an autographed copy of the book and I thought that was aweful nice of him to do.
I let the book sit for about 3 months only reading a couple of pages at a time. Once I started really getting into the book I was so immersed in the story of his marine tour that I had to remind myself that I met the guy in his house on a hill in montana and that this is a true story...no B.S. Just the fact that he is not dead or missing limb's proves the greek was right. The story's here are top notch and there's never a dull moment in the book. Ed's vivid recollection of events really helps someone that has never been in war really get a good idea what it was like and what kind of things you think about. Definitely reccomend this to anyone over 15 years old for some education on how vietnam was for this group of snipers.
As a woman.... February 1, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've read a few Nam books and this was by far my favorite. Sometimes I feel excluded from books about Nam being a woman. This book allowed me a glimpse into the minds of young men at war. I loved it. I literally could not put it down. I laughed and I cried and I felt anxiety from the suspense. My dad served in Nam and I feel like I understand him better after reading this book. I'll look for more books from Ed Kugler.
A real acount of what life was like September 25, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Author has written a very good detailed account of what life was like in the Marines during his service. Written with cold hard truth mixed with his opinions of what was really happening. He has written one of the best books I have read. Even in the hell he was living in he was still able to find an unusual sense of humor in some of the things he seen. If you want a book with daily accounts of the reality of Vietnam this book is for you. There is not one of the "Superman" hero type books.
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