Eye of the tiger : memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam / John Edmund Delezen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delezen, John Edmund, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Marine Corps. Force Reconnaissance Company, 3rd.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

History.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Regimental histories--United States.

United States. Marine Corps. Force Reconnaissance Company, 3rd--History.

United States.

Delezen, John Edmund, 1947-.

Delezen, John Edmund.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- American.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xii, 186 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2003]

Summary:

"We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood." John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. Delezen writes of Vietnam as a man humbled by a mysterious country and horrified by acts of brutality. The land was his enemy as much as the Vietnamese soldiers. He vividly describes the three-canopy jungle with birds and monkeys overhead that could be heard but not seen, venomous snakes hiding in trees and relentless bugs that fed on men. He recalls stumbling onto a pit of rotting Vietnamese bodies left behind by American forces, and days when fierce hunger made a bag of plasma seem like an enticing meal. He writes of his fallen comrades and the images of war that still pervade his dreams.

Contents:

Ho Mang Chua

Nui con thien

The dark

Hunger

The gift

Da Nang

Ca lu

Con Ho

The river

The rain

The Chi Com

Notre dame de la vang

In the shadow of co roc

The trail

The border : into Laos

Home.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0786416564

OCLC:

52412109