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Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Lately I have been consuming book about Vietnam from as many different perspectives as possible.  I found this book unique due to the variety of people interviewed, gaining insight from nearly all sides of the war. I found this book highly informative and equally emotional. There are times when I read accounts of Vietnam through my own lens, meaning, my age.  I too easily lose sight that those involved in the fighting were so young.  There is a particular story in this book of a nurse and realized the patient she was treating (NVA) would have been protesting the war on his side, just as some Americans had been.  This man was 19 years old.  I find it difficult to wrap my head around the people placed in these situations at such a young age. Be sure to read the epiloque in this book as it contains a follow-up on those interviewed and what happened to them post Vietnam war.