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Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat

Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat

by JamesR.McDonough (Author)

Synopsis

program *Focuses on the details, people and incidents that communicate an instinctive feel of command under fire. The story of a young man's indoctrination into combat as an infantry platoon leader in the famed 173d Airborne Brigade, is told with pace and style in what has become a classic in the literature of America's war in Vietnam.

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More Information

Format: Mass Market Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New ed of "Platoon Leader"
 Publisher: Presidio Press
Published: 01 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 0891418008
ISBN 13: 9780891418009

Author Bio
Col. James McDonough, USA (Ret.), graduated from West Point and served in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader in the legendary 173d Airborne Brigade. A military theorist who has helped shape the post-Cold War army's thinking, he is also the author of The Defense of Hill 781 and The Limits of Glory. Now retired from active duty, McDonough lives with his family in Tallahassee, Florida.