Review: Exciting and Almost Impossible to Put Down
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2014
There are only handful of memorable Vietnam War novels, and this is one of them. The plot and story are superb, and even the non-action sections were interesting and never dull or dry. I plan to buy the other novels by this author, and expect to be just as well entertained by them as I was with Master Guns.Having written that, I need to explain why I didn't give this book 5-stars.1. It needs an editor and proof-readers who can read this fresh. There were lots of missing commas, a few periods, and a couple  words that detract from an otherwise excellent book.2. Although too young for Vietnam, I am familiar with the military, having served in the US Army for 3-years where all my sergeants were Vietnam veterans. Because of this background, everything talked about in Master Guns made perfect sense to me. But since most other readers lack this background, I feel they would quickly get lost in the terminology. A glossary would help the uneducated and keep them on-track.