Down South: One Tour in Vietnam
Hardwick's job was to provide artillery support for his infantry company. He was not out of the line of fire, however. His company lost ten men in as many minutes during their firefight, and, though Hardwick was "deep-down-in-my-bones scared," he vowed to survive the war "moment-to-moment." Down South is the story of his thirteen-month survival, of fighting up and down the hills and valleys of Vietnam against the hardened, invisible Viet Cong.