Eye of the Tiger
Subtitle: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780786416561
Subjects: Asian history: Vietnam War; War & defence operations; c 1960 to c 1970; Military - Vietnam War; Marines; Military History - Vietnam Conflict; United States - General; History; History - General History; Personal narratives, American; Biography/Autobiography; Vietnam; Asia - Southeast Asia; United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Military Science; Personal Memoirs; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Marine Corps; Regimental histories
Description: "This memoir begins when the author enlisted in the Marine Corps and was sent to Vietnam in March of 1967. He volunteered for the Third Force Recon Company, whose job it was to located and infiltrate enemy lines undetected and map their locations and learn details of their status. The duty was often painful both physically and mentally. He was stricken with malaria, wounded by a grenade, and hit by a bullet. He remained in Vietnam until December, 1968. Delezen writes of Vietnam as a man humbled by a mysterious country and horrified by acts of brutality. He vividly describes the three-canopy jungle with birds and monkeys overhead, venomous snakes hiding in trees, and relentless bugs that feed 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 the pervade his dreams"--Page 4 of cover.