Blood on the Risers : An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam

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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: Great Vietnam War Book!
Review: John Leppelman gives an unvarnished, first hand account of an Airborne soldier in 3 tours of Vietnam. The battle descriptions are very detailed and description of life there very lucid. The book is well written and moves quickly. The totality of the book's battles and struggles hits you like a sledgehammer. Definitely a read if you want to understand the Vietnam War or soldier.

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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 [e-mail] Good luck with all your future endeavers

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Summary: Its a great book with much action!! Great reading!
Review: One day I asked my dad if he could loun me a good reading book on the Vietnam war. He handed me Blood on the Risers! I learned many things by reading John's book like how the press lied and hid things from the men and wemon at home, and how the War was limited like it shouldn't have been. After all it was a War not a picnick. I wish I could meet Mr. Leppelman and speak with him. I'v read many nonfictional and fictional books but nothing compares to Blood on the Risers!

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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!