Campfires and Gun Smoke

To make sure you get the right book, make sure the cover says "Revised Edition." Combat veterans recall their harrowing experiences in silence. They live with a barely concealed rage that is driven by what they saw in battle. Never can they explain why their nerves are constantly on edge. Chances are pretty good that veterans you know avoid telling about their combat experiencesCampfires and Gun Smoke reveals the secrets of combat as you would hear them around a campfire. These...
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To make sure you get the right book, make sure the cover says "Revised Edition." Combat veterans recall their harrowing experiences in silence. They live with a barely concealed rage that is driven by what they saw in battle. Never can they explain why their nerves are constantly on edge. Chances are pretty good that veterans you know avoid telling about their combat experiencesCampfires and Gun Smoke reveals the secrets of combat as you would hear them around a campfire. These compelling stories give a picture of combat that can only be told by someone who lived through the war -- real-life stories told by a US Army Ranger, combat infantry company commander.You get a feeling for daily life of combat soldiers from the company commander's point of view. You'll become part of the jungle patrols and the rice-paddy ambushes. You'll know how it feels to slog waist deep in water for hours during monsoon rains and what it's like to live through a gunfight.Your military-service relatives would tell stories like this if they'd open up and let you know about their own time in combat. And unlike most books about combat, Campfires and Gun Smoke gives you stories that you can read to your entire family.In this book Dale Collie tells what it was like to lead a company of teenage soldiers in combat. You'll see their heroism, and you'll see that there are flaws in the system that some people would prefer to hide. Post-combat and recovery from combat wounds is extraordinary in itself, and here you'll read just how the author survived and thrived as a combat amputee.