Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Cloverleaf Books, Colorado
Date Published: 1979
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1979 Cloverleaf paperback. NOT EX LIB! Pages clean with little wear, uncreased spine, some sun fading of top & side edges, mild edgewear, light cover & side edge scuffing. 563 p. "America's Most Decorated Soldier" read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Cloverleaf Books, Colorado
Date Published: 1979
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. 1979 Cloverleaf paperback. NOT EX LIB! Clean, lightly tanned pages with some reading wear, creased spine & covers, black line across bottom edge, moderate edgewear, covers & edges are scuffed & tanned. Reading copy. 563 p. "America's Most Decorated Soldier" read more
Edition: 3rd
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dell, N. Y.
Date Published: 1973
Description: Cover Art. Reading Copy. No Jacket. Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Reading copy is rated from good to very fine.........The book may have minor flaws that may have gone unnoticed.... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780030914560ISBN:0030914566
Description: Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. Clean text Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN-13:9780030914560ISBN:0030914566
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN-13:9780030914560ISBN:0030914566
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Edition: Unabridged.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780030914560ISBN:0030914566
Description: Poor in fair dust jacket. Previous Library Offering with all the stamps and Marks expected in a library book Spine loose, dirty. 498 p. read more
"Anthony Herbert tells his story in a straightforward and transparent way, and it is compelling reading. Like another soldier whose story resembles his, David Hackworth, Herbert came from a blue-collar background where the military was held in great esteem, joined the Army as a teenager, sought out and excelled at the most difficult duties as an elite soldier, rose to the rank of colonel, and ultimately retired filled with despair at the growing bureaucratization and willfully ignorant leadership by generals and civilian authorities that wrought havoc on his beloved Army and often needlessly cost the lives of the troops to whom he was so devoted. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the forces that drove the generation who were junior officers and troops in the Vietnam era in their reform of the military, and the devastation many of them feel at seeing most of the mistakes of Vietnam being repeated in Iraq."
"LTC Herbert was a natural leader of men and excellent soldier (most highly decorated soldier of the Korean War and The Real Deal in Viet Nam as well) who was forced out of the Army in a bitter dispute over his allegations that superiors ignored atrocities at a time when the Army brass was trying to put My Lai behind them.
He wrote this book to air his grievances against the Army for forcing him to retire while the Viet Nam War was still going strong, and, I suppose, to cash in on his reputation as a combat hero. The controversy was investigated by 60 Minutes (no friend of the Army in those days), but they ended up attacking Herbert as having gone off the deep end.
A retired Special Forces colonel who knew him personally, and whom I respect very much, described him thus: "Tony Herbert did not embody the virtues of the American officer. He was a just a killer." He thought many of Herbert's actions were driven by what was best for Tony Herbert and not whatever command he was under or the Army. He doubted Herbert's side of the story and suspected he exaggerated the incidents to smear officers he disliked. Others who served with Herbert disagreed, noting that he was a hardass commander who got combat results, and that his accounts ring true.
Regardless, his descriptions of Army life in the 50's and 60's and combat in Korea and Viet Nam are compelling, and historians of this period should read this book. It made a big impression on me as I read it in my final year of R.O.T.C. before beginning my Army career. Coincidentally, I later served as a platoon leader in the battalion (2/503 Infantry) that Herbert had commanded 15 years earlier."
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