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- Sales Rank: #483936 in Books
- Published on: 1989
- Binding: Paperback
- 592 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Was personal for me
By Fred
This is my fourth book by this author I am totally engrossed when reading his books as one feels like you are there. Being a Vietnam and commissioned a 2lt in 1966 I really identified with this 1966 West Point class. Their thoughts during and after their experiences were very real to me including losing several friends in Vietnam. Also reinforced my decision to turn down the Captain bars if I extended one more year. Really enjoyed reading about the history of the wall in DC
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Brilliantly Recounts the Vietnam Experience
By CJA
This book is a great complement to Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie." Both tell the story of Vietnam through the prism of a few individuals, though Atkinson has a somewhat larger class of protagonists to work with by virtue of following the exploits of an entire class of West Point graduates. Atkinson comes from a military family, and his perspective is more right of center than Sheehan's. He provides a much-needed reminder of the idealism, patriotism, and heroism of the young men who served. One can best appreciate the Vietnam experience by reading both books, as well as Karnow's masterly narrative history, "Vietnam: A History."
Given the more conservative perspective of Atkinson and his protagonists, their criticisms of the military are compelling. The American military in Vietnam failed at the strategic level, as Sheehan and others have made clear. We could not win a war of attrition against a numerous enemy fighting on his home turf who was far more committed than we to the battle. And on a tactical level, Westmoreland's search-and-destroy methods, which involved abandoning territory after horrific bloodletting, were insane. Abrams' clear-and-hold methods made a lot more sense and the great irony is that the war was going better, at least tactically, when we pulled out than when we were escalating. But given the strategic reality, Abrams was hardly in a position to "win" the war. The enemy would regroup and would continue to bleed Americans for decades until we left. This was not a winnable war, at least so long as we were not prepared to use massive infusions of millions of troops and billions more dollars of resources.
Atkinson is critical of the careerism of the officer corps. Officers punched their tickets on tours as opposed to staying at a job for the long haul and making a difference. In addition, the West Point system and attitude of the officer corps was more conducive to sliding by as opposed to encouraging a corps of creative, risk-taking, and accountable junior officers.
By following the class after Vietnman into the 1980s, Atkinson is able to show the ways in which the military has changed for the better in reaction to Vietnam. The gender integration of West Point and move away from some of sadistic dysfunction of the old West Point seems a positive step in the direction of attracting the best and the brightest and encouraging them to be creative leaders.
The tragedy of the young officers who died is heartbreaking, as is the callous treatment of returning veterans. Atkinson's approach allows him to tell the story not just of a changing military, but the story of the evolution in attitudes toward the military by Americans in general. The combat scenes in this book are mesmerizing, and Atkinson seems to have been able to capture the true horror and exhiliration of combat.
Atkinson did an extraordinary amount of interviewing and hard work in preparing this narrative, and he tells the story in an engrossing manner.
This is a magnificent book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Don't pigeonhole this as "military history"
By M. Feldman
It would be a shame to classify this book as "military history," since the term is bound to turn away some readers. Certainly this narrative of the lives of some members of the West Point class of 1966 follows them into combat, and Atkinson is a masterful writer in this genre. However, what is most interesting about this book is the way it describes the intersection---one might even say collision--of the values and education imparted by West Point with the rapidly changing culture of the sixties and seventies. In addition, Atkinson's examination of the lingering deleterious effects on the Army of an unpopular and unsuccessful war is enough to make one wonder what the consequences of the current unpopular war will be. This book, which often reads like a novel, ought to be in the hands of students, most of whom have little connection to the war in Iraq and little understanding of military life, unlike their sixties counterparts, who at least faced the draft.
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