Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam

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Summary: Eye of the Tiger
Review: This is a spledid work that encaptures the battlefield aroma encircling a Recon Marine. It is not told - it is breathed - you will become a part of several recon patrols; such experience isn't gained, except by initiation into the training and comraderie of the Recon Marine Team - hence this book's appeal to those of us who trained with, but did not participate in, the deathly challenge of becoming a combat qualified Recon Marine. For all who have not experienced the fear, paranoia, and gut-wrenching frustrations associated with recon patrols: read this account - and remember the excellent word pictures for the rest of your life.

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Summary: The best work I have read in many years
Review: This is perhaps the finest work involving human conflict written within the last few years. I teach literature, did not serve in the military during the Vietnam War although I was of that generation.
This book has been passed around among our faculty, it finally reached me and I devoured it. I must say that it has given so many of us that did not serve a strong admiration for those that did. The author writes of human emotion, painting word pictures as he weaves tapestries with a haunting prose; he gives no quarter to the reader and somewhere within the depths of this book, the reader suddenly finds themselves alone dealing with their own emotions. I could write pages about this work but I will just say, it needs to be read. I plan to require my students read it.