Kevin McAuley

Could not put down this first hand account of an infantryman's hot take on what was called a cold war. From the yugoslav border in the mid 40s to the front lines of multiple Allied advances and retreats in Korea, minutemen service on the west coast in the "new look" Army of the later 50s and finally the troubling entanglement of men and machines in Vietnam, Col. Hackworth recounts his exploits with a gritty realness. Buy it, read it twice. And then once more for good measure.