by David Donovan (Author)
David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta in April 1969, a raw and idealistic first lieutenant fresh from Special Warfare School. He was assigned to an isolated four-man team operating alone in a remote rural area of the Delta which was sent there to co-operate with village chiefs and local militia against the Vietcong. As chief commanding officer of his unit Donovan led patrol and combat missions, and he vividly re-creates the suspense of night ambushes and the high-pitched emotion of surprise attacks and man-to-man warfare in the swamps and jungles of the Delta. But Donovan was also involved with the lives of the local people in a role beyond that of military advisor, and ultimately he was inducted into a Vietnamese brotherhood - the honorary 'warrior kings'.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 10 Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 0304367133
ISBN 13: 9780304367139
Book Overview: Can be compared in intensity with the war writings of Robert Graves There is ongoing public interest in the war in Vietnam and the stories of 'ordinary' soldiers 'One of the best told narratives to come out of the Vietnam War. The book, in effect, is the chronicle of Donovan's forging an honorable, effective presence in an ambiguous setting' Military Book Club, USA 'David Donovan powerfully projects the loneliness, the strains and the dangers he and the Vietnamese shared as they fought and many died to protect their community...His book discloses a fascinating dimension of the war at the village level which has gone largely unnoticed and for which Donovan deserves much praise' Ambassador William E. Colby, Director of Civil Operations and Rural Development Support in Saigon, 1968-71.
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