Bibliograph

Eye of the tiger, memoir of a United States marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam, John Edmund Delezen

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Eye of the tiger, memoir of a United States marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam, John Edmund Delezen

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eye of the tiger

Oclc number

52412109

Responsibility statement

John Edmund Delezen

Sub title

memoir of a United States marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

Ho Mang Chua -- Nui Con Thien -- The dark -- Hunger -- The gift -- Da Nang -- Ca Lu -- Con Ho -- The river -- The rain -- The Chi Com -- Notre Dame de La Vang -- In the shadow of Co Roc -- The trail -- The border : into Laos -- Home

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