A review by zelanator
The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam by Andrew Wiest

4.0

Great social history of combat soldiers during the Vietnam War. It's mostly narrative with some interesting threads about how these soldiers' attitudes toward the conflict evolved between enlistment and DEROs. The author has a tendency to become melodramatic when he describes various situations and when he speculates about what each soldier probably felt during and after combat situations. This book rests on a substantial amount of oral histories collected by the author after he invited a Vietnam veteran to his undergrad course. I only wish he would have used the soldiers' own words more frequently to convey the grit of combat and especially their emotions after battles.

It's also one of the few popular books that goes into detail on riverine combat in the Mekong Delta. Overall a good book, but I suspect it could have been condensed into a shorter volume.