Youth In Asia: A Story of Life, Death and Infantry Combat with the 173rd Airborne Brigade during The Vietnam War's 1968 Tet Offensive in The Central Highlands: Young men will change. Some will Die.
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Youth In Asia: A Story of Life, Death and Infantry Combat with the 173rd Airborne Brigade during The Vietnam War's 1968 Tet Offensive in The Central Highlands: Young men will change. Some will Die.
On the 50th Anniversary of the start of America's commitment of major combat units to Vietnam, Youth In Asia is a new Vietnam War novel of young Americans trapped in the jungles of Vietnam's Central Highlands in a war they did not understand. This is a story that relives the friendships,loyalties and betrayals of young men in combat.  Written by an infantryman who served as both an enlisted man and an officer after the war, Youth In Asia presents a realistic account of five men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade separated from their unit in the darkness of a jungle night. Lead by an overconfident young soldier fresh from the DMZ in Korea who thinks he knows what he is doing, they arrive in jungle clearings on waves of Huey helicopters, jumping to the red dirt before slogging across fields and dropping into one dark valley after the next while running low on bullets but driven by fear and anger. As day breaks, pushed to the limit and losing blood,there will be heroes, cowards, and death. And they will make decisions that will haunt the survivors.  After the furious fight for Hill 875 and the battles around Dak To, this story is set near the border with Cambodia as North Vietnamese Army units and Viet Cong irregulars are massing for the brutal Tet Offensive of 1968 that broke the back of America's commitment to fight the Vietnam War. It is a story of our Vietnam Veterans' determination, triumph and loss. It is a story of furious, close combat in lethal firefights, and it is a story of confusion both on the battlefield and in the minds of young men a million miles from their homes.Those that survive will have changed. Forever.
There are Vietnam War facts, and Vietnam War timelines, and Vietnam War summaries, but of Vietnam War fiction, few books let you experience the war first hand. Favorably compared by reviewers to great military fiction classics by Stephen Crane, John M. Del Vecchio, Robert Roth, and Winston Groom, Youth in Asia will leave you with a better understanding of what it was like to be there, and a better understanding of what it meant to come back if not to come home. Â
