A review by gimpyknee
Into No Man's Land: The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty by Ellen Emerson White

4.0

A good account of the siege of Kha Sanh and of battles on the surrounding hillsides. The author is absolutely correct - Marines who served there never considered that their situation was hopeless or that they needed "saving". The only thing that doesn't ring true is that Private Flaherty would not have spent eight months recuperating at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. Throughout the Vietnam War great efforts were made to send casualties to hospitals nearest their homes. Private Flaherty would have undergone rehab at the Chelsea Naval Hospital in Boston which had an excellent orthopedics ward.