| Angels on Our Shoulders: How I Earned My College Tuition Money Contributor(s): Wright, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1449030262 ISBN-13: 9781449030261 Publisher: Authorhouse OUR PRICE: $13.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - History | Military - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5" W x 8" (0.52 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Angels On Our Shoulders is a book about a young (age18) combat infantryman's up-close and personal experiences in the Viet Nam war as it raged on in 1969-1970. The book is filled with personal accounts of combat fire-fights in the jungle and countless night ambush patrols that often ended up in very close-quarter shoot-outs in the darkness of open rice-paddies. It goes on to detail actual combat insertions of troops via helicopter that, on at least one occassion, resulted in a vicious combat fire-fight that began as the troops alit from the helicopters. In military "parlance," this was known as a "Hot LZ." The book also offers occassional insights into the extreme mental and physical toll that war takes on combat infantrymen. |