[PDF.44jz] Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War

Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War

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 | #741609 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2009-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .85 x6.44 x9.50l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Highly Recommend|By buckyball|As a member of Mr. Milam's same cohort, I was looking for a book that covered the Vietnam War's Army junior officer experience, especially of the OCS trained variety. Even though I was commissioned in a non-combat branch of the Army (QM), I had the same enlisted infantry MOS and the same civilian-oriented mindset as the author.
The book is a e| |Milam, himself a Vietnam veteran, comes to the topic with plenty of passion and a desire to right the record.--The Chronicle ||

Provides a vivid, on-the-ground portrait of what the platoon leader faced. . . . Well-researched, meticulously do

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers. Written by a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Not a Gentleman's War is about such soldiers--a gritty, against-the-grain defense of the much-maligned junior officer.

Conventional wisdom holds that the junior officer in Vietnam was a no-talent, poorly trained, unmotivated soldier typified by Lt. William Calley of My Lai infamy. Drawing on oral histories, after-action reports, d...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War   |  Ron Milam. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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