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Shrapnel Wounds: An Infantry Lieutenant's Vietnam War Memoir

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Shrapnel Wounds: An Infantry Lieutenant's Vietnam War Memoir

Shrapnel Wounds is the combat memoir of Lieutenant Tom Crowley, an enthusiastic and highly trained U.S. Army enlistee and Officer Candidate School grad who enters combat in Vietnam in mid-1966. Highly regarded by his infantry platoon and strongly encouraged by his superiors to become a professional soldier, Crowley almost inadvertently examines the system by which career officers are shepherded through to higher and higher rankâ€”and increasingly rejects that system over the course of his one-year combat tour.

Praise for Shrapnel Wounds

â€œOf the many accounts of day-to-day life in the field in Vietnam, few have matched, and none have surpassed, Tom Crowleyâ€™s account of his experience as an infantry platoon leader during the Vietnam War.

"What he does extraordinarily well is reveal the depth of personal commitment a junior officer can have for men under his command and their welfare. It is a personal story profoundly told. A brilliant effort.â€

Dwight Jon Zimmerman
President, Military Writers Society of America
New York Times bestselling author

Country	USA
Author	Tom Crowley
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781890988852
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Pacifica Military History
Manufacturer	Pacifica Military History
NumberOfPages	198
PublicationDate	2015-07-19
Publisher	Pacifica Military History
ReleaseDate	2015-07-19
Studio	Pacifica Military History

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