WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST. Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966. As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley for VC and NVA. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating. In DEAD CENTER, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush skills, and guts--while underscoring exactly what a country demands of its youth when it sends them to war.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House USA INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780804118750
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87730776
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dead Center: a Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
Author
Ed Kugler
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1999
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
173mm
Item Width
107mm
Item Weight
227g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ed Kugler
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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