The Crouching Beast
Subtitle: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969
Publisher: McFarland
Published: Jun 12, 2013
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780786474394
Description: "The book describes my first seven months in Viet Nam, as a platoon leader in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry. The first part of the book deals with the routine tactics, unending work, misery and occasional hilarity of infantry life The bulk of the book, however, deals with two events, within three weeks"--
Notes: Source title: The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969