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Summary: A real view of the Army and fighting in Vietnam
Review: from the defective M-16's, to the incompetent "leadership" this book covers it all. I think I have read all the books on Vietnam
but this one is clearly the best! This should be required reading
in high schools, and for all the long haired hippy freaks who blamed the soldiers instead of the politicians.
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Summary: Slip away....
Review: Good book, Leppelman was a very crazy guy I'll give him that. The books is good ,it is a quick and easy read. Just like every other war book , follows him around the jungle on missions and his buddies.But the tittle of the book should not have been Blood on the Risers, it does not really have of an Airborne feel to it. nevertheless still worth reading.
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Summary: Riveting; You won't want to put it down.
Review: I just finished reading John's book and I am totally awestruck over what I just read. John's experiences as a Ranger will keep you glued to the book. I simply can't imagine living through the kinds of firefights these men engaged themselves in. It's truly sad that heroes such as these men were had to return home to a world where they were often looked down on. The first thing I did after finishing John's book was to sit down and write him a letter personally thanking him and telling him how proud I would have been to have served with, or been a friend of, a man such as him. What a heroic story! I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to educate themselves on just about every facet of what it was like to serve in Vietnam - from a grunt to the elite Rangers - very well written!
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Summary: Riveting; You won't want to put it down.
Review: John, I had wriiten a review a while ago. I am writtng another to tell you that I believe the you and my father are cousins. my brother and I are trying to trace the family tree and I would really like to talk to you or even meet you. e-mail me at squinto2000@hotmail.com Good luck with all your future endeavers
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Summary: A great book
Review: One of the best books written about Vietnam. The Author is down to earth, realistic and ironical. This book really deserves a look.
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Summary: Great Fighter, Great Writer
Review: This is a micro-perspective of the war as told by one brave and skilled soldier/survivor. One learns how the enemy was hardly the only peril. We get detailed accounts of the ordeal and how he managed to survive the exhaustion, dehydration, hunger, trench foot, vipers, leaches and more. But clearly the biggest problem was the lack of leadership, and Leppelman gives us a glaring example of the cost borne by the ignorance, cowardice, greed, and arrogance of some of the U.S. Army's not-so-finest.This book is absolutely riveting, and I devoured it at breakneck speed. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Airborne!
Review: This is a must read for anybody who was airborne and enlisted. I must have read 40 books on Nam and this is right up there with the best. A great read that gives you a gut-wrenching feeling on how the infantry warriors truly suffered. It is a wonder John survived his first tour. The value of the book is the first hand account of an ordinary American boy turned warrior in three totally different venues: airborne infantry, brown water swabbie, and airborne ranger. I'd love to buy him a beer if he ever shows up at the 82nd Airborne Assn. or USMC Force Recon Assn. reunions. Airborne John, all the way!
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Summary: A real view of the Army and fighting in Vietnam
Review: You would expect this book to be filled with stories from an airborne soldier's 35 month tour in Vietnam, but it is much more.
What makes this book exceptional is that it begins with the author beginning his tour in Vietnam as an airborne soilder in the 'herd' where he learns the reality of being cannon fodder at the direction of officers and NCO's who have not a clue or concern for anything other than their own ego's and careers. Lepp escapes certain death by poor leadership by extending his tour with a transfer to a riverboat, where he again finds the ego's and ticket punchers. Lepp again extends to find a new home, only to land in warrior heaven, where finding and killing the enemy comes before salutes and sandbags.
This isn't the tale to feed the author's ego nor does it imply he was a hero. Simply a man who found himself to have a true warrior spirit and how difficult the Army made it for him and men like him to fight a war. In the end you get a good example of just how effective the warriors that the regular army calls 'trouble makers' can be when they are put together as a Ranger unit and allowed to operate as they should. Plenty of action from a front line view.
This book is a must read for anyone who is interested in how the Army really functioned in Vietnam!
Great Book Lepp!! Glad you survived to write it!
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