This is not the work of famous artists. This is the expression of roughly a hundred soldiers and nurses who served in Vietnam and have spent a lot of time since sorting it out. Much of the work is done years after coming home. There are patterns to be found in this collection. This is reality-based art, born not of desire, but necessity.
War is personified with figures standing.
The concern is what war does to the survivor. A grotesque mask carved from wood with one eye stitched closed is the work of an army cook. You do not embrace this book lightly. If the art is up front, so too is the language. There are no perfumed terms of the time.