Expendables

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Summary: "The Expendables"
Review: As a Marine infantryman, the characters in this book were as real as the grunts as I served with. No other author has ever connected with the real comraderie of men under arms as well as Scott has. I can not read this book with a dry eye and I challenge any man who has ever served to do so, especially the last five pages. This book is written with the first hand knowledge of a man who has faced the elephant and understands the warrior ethos. It ranks with "The Forgotten Soldier" as a gripping narrative of men in combat. Although these men are fictitious, they are as real as any name on the Wall because they could have been any one of them. For anyone who wants to understand the truth of what our fighting men did in Vietnam, indeed did in any war, they must read this book.

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Summary: The Expendables
Review: COL Leonard B. Scott(Ret) has done it again with "The Expendables". The charters are so well developed that you identify at once with each member of the team. Even though this is a work of fiction, the book has many truths interwoven in this a most powerful story. As a Vet (not Vietnam) I found myself crying as I finished the last chapter. I highly recommend this book to anyone, Vet or otherwise.

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Summary: The Expendables
Review: COL Leonard B. Scott(Ret) has done it again with "The Expendables". The charters are so well developed that you identify at once with each member of the team. Even though this is a work of fiction, the book has many truths interwoven in this a most powerful story. As a Vet (not Vietnam) I found myself crying as I finished the last chapter. I highly recommend this book to anyone, Vet or otherwise.

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Summary: One of the Best Military Authors to Date
Review: I have read them all from Clancy to Brown and LtCol.(Ret) Scott is by far one of the best military writers to date. My father served in Vietnam and after he came back my mom said he was never the same and I always wondered what it was like, why men like my father and Col Scott, why they went when they were called knowing they might not return and those that did would be forever altered. I joined the infantry at 17 to see for myself and after serving in Panama and Somalia I understand. Col. Scott says it best in the books with way he connects you to the characters you come to realize they did it for the men to their left and their right, not so much for America, but the men who represent America. Sad to know that he won't be writing anymore books but the four vietnam books he wrote are some of the greatest military fiction ever written and in my opinion should be required reading for all young soldiers and leaders.

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Summary: KUDOS FOR LEONARD B. SCOTT
Review: Scott, who was there truly captures the essence of what being an Army soldier during the Viet Nam Era was like. I have never read anyone offer a more complete and thorough description of Army Basic Training during those days. Scott also does an excellent job in building his characters by reflecting on their varied backgrounds and then integrating them to produce a suberb book. Excellent and must reading for all Army veterans of the Viet Nam Era.

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Summary: A great novel of the vietnam war
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read, its got everything you'd want in the book, action suspence, alittle love for the girls, and an especially well thought out theme and plot, there is alittle problem with the accurescy of the plot though, the authur places the characters in the first blatton, 7th cavelery, otherwise knonw as Gary Owen's in some battles where they actually did not fight in. But never the less it is a great book and i would recomend to anyone

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Summary: This was the most touching book I ever read
Review: When I got done with this I was inspired. I wanted to make a group of my friends and call ourselves The Expendables. This book is so well written there isn't a single dull moment. When I graduate high school(I'm a freshman) I want to go Airborne!