Title: Powerful Oral History
Product review: This is a very readable oral history of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War by those that were there. Author Al Santoli lets 33 men and women tell their stories, arranged in a sort of chronological order. We learn about our early participation, the TET offensive, the later years, etc. We hear from grunts, nurses, and some officers. The book doesn't have a strong theme other than to allow the veterans to tell their stories. And that they do openly and in stark terms, without rationalizing or justifying, and usually without much sense of necessity or patriotism. The result is a moving look at what the grunts endured in an ugly and questionable conflict.
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