"No book to date conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War as thoroughly as this one." -- Publishers Weekly

This book is dedicated to my darling wife, Alice.  Special thanks to my father for his editorial assistance; the Fitchburg Arts Council for its financial aid; Adria Henderson, Bill McCoy, Jack Madden, John Kelly, and Nick Proffitt for their comradeship; Sandy Kelson, Larry Hill, and Any McKevitt for their generosity; Dave Coggeshall, Ian Fleming, the Fat Angel, and Robert Graves for inspiration; Lucy Nhiem Hong Nguyen, Lien Johnson, and Pham Thi Ngoc Chan for their efforts on my behalf; Larry Tunison for the night on the town; and all those who contributed to this book.

Douglas Valentine lives with his wife Alice in western Massachusetts.  He is the author of The Hotel Tacloban, a widely praised account of life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.