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An accidental soldier : memoir of a Mestizo in Vietnam / Manny Garcia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garcia, Manny, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Garcia, Manny, 1947-.
- Garcia, Manny.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Participation, Hispanic American.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 278 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A Mestizo-American, Garcia relates his life as a cocky, naive teenager who joined the army in 1965, became an Air Ranger with the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles, " and records his first kill was a guerilla; "a woman while I was on probation to the Juvenile Court."
- ISBN:
- 0826330134
- OCLC:
- 50630518
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