Alpha one sixteen
Subtitle: a combat infantryman's year in Vietnam
By: Peter Clark
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781612005997
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States; United States. Army. Infantry, 16th. Battalion, 1st. Company A.; American Personal narratives; United States. Army; Biography
Description: "Peter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company. Clark gives a visceral, vivid and immediate account of life in the platoon, as he progresses from green recruit to seasoned soldier over the course of a year in the complexities of the Vietnamese conflict"--