Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader's Journal of Vietnam - Softcover

Lanning, Col. Michael Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804100055 ISBN 13: 9780804100052

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1987

Synopsis

During his tour in Vietnam with the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, Lieutenant Lee Lanning walked the booby-trapped rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, searching for elusive Viet Cong, and later macheted his way through the triple-canopy jungle, fighting North Vietnamese Army regulars. He served as an infantry platoon leader, reconnaissance platoon leader, and company commander. He sweated, thirsted, hunted, killed. And in all those experiences, he shared the terror, boredom, rage, and excitement of countless other American soldiers.

Lee Lanning's story is based an the journal he kept of his time in Nam -- an pages often mud-splattered and occasionally bloodstained. In his wards: "It was popular among many who taught to say that Vietnam 'wasn't much of a war, but it was the only war we had.' I can only add that it was enough of a war for me."

About this title

About the Author:

MICHAEL LEE LANNING, who retired from a career in the U.S. Army in 1988, was awarded the bronze star for valor with two oak-leaf clusters and numerous other decorations for his service in Vietnam. Author of over a dozen books on military history, he lives in Phoenix, Arizona

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0804100055
• ISBN 13: 9780804100052
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304