Well written it is a true story just the way ...
929703
Well written it is a true story just the way it was having to live under the communist regime. Every student should be reading this book.
1824992
The story was well written in a style that allowed the reader to believe that it was based on fact. It was an interesting mix of emotions.
3769069
I HAVE READ THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED. THIS WRITER SHOWS THE INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED AS REAL PEOPLE, AND BY SO DOING, SHOWS US HOW AND WHY IT HAPPENED. WELL WRITTEN AND TELLS THE STORY OF MEN WHO WERE VALIANT, DOING THEIR DUTY KILLING THE ENEMY, BUT NEVER LOST THEIR HUMANITY. THE FACE TO FACE MEETING OF THE TWO WILL TOUCH EVEN THE MOST JADED HEART.  THIS BOOK IS A WORTHY READ.
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I never knew how much combat the typical infantry man faced in Vietnam. The hardship of life in that environment coupled with some truly misguided leadership and a determined enemy made for the perfect storm of misery, death and destruction. The account is written simply with no attempt to jazz up the vocabulary or writing style. Written just like a guy telling his buddy a story. I would recommend it for this very reason, and I believe the account to be as factual as possible given the constraints of memory and stress. I would lime to know how Rock and Lewis are doing these days. I hope they are still best friends.
157420
Anyone who  likes non fiction will enjoy this book. The way the author describes the events in this book is real.
1966565
This is a well written and easy to read book.  It pulls you into it so much so that I could not put it down... I purchased it and read it completely in less than 24 hours....  Just an all around awesome story that holds so much truth in it.  I just loved this book.....
2112086
The book was very simply written, however since it was done in the manner of a true story being told, it did a very good job of covering the events.  I grew up in the area so it made my interest in the story more intense than maybe someone else would find it.
3158017
This is a good book to past your time and amazingly it was a true story.  If they do a movie, I hope they do justice telling the story than doing the current movies nowadays with quick action takes and effects and twisting the natives as pure evil to sell tickets.
151478
The book is very well written. Once i started to read it, I was hooked. I had previously seen the movie but the book is better.  This is a true story that was written by the person that actually lived through the ordeal.  Prior to reading this book, one might have thought that they would have never accepted to live in servitude; that they would have revolted and freed themselves from their oppressors.  However a few chapters into the book these illusions are quickly dashed by the harsh realities facing the slave. The author was able to transmit the feeling of hopelessness of the slave facing the brutality of institutionalize slavery.  And the most alarming fact is that it still could happen today!
185231
I did not realize untill the very end, that this was a true story. It is so well written that it really gets to you. It makes you upset with the abuse of power and it is a scream for control of every person or body that executes power over free men and women.
2198716
I didn't realize when I started the book that it's a true story. It reads like fabulous fiction but as the story goes on the reality becomes more plausible and that much more engaging..very well written..
4083292
A well written true story about a phase of the early part of WWII that I knew nothing about. Most people, my self included, only think of the submarine U-boat war but the surface raiders played a big part in Germany's efforts
745598
a well written true story of a daughters courage , a book to remember and can not lay down ,
1802993
One best written true stories I have read. The author does an excellent job of making you feel like you were right there with them, living in the histories. The depth of the relationships was poignant.
4892459
Very well written it does not go down the road where just because a character is young nothing bad happens to them. I really liked the the fact that it is written as if young people are still people and not innocent and unharmable creatures.
3339201
This is a great true story. I bought the DVD for my husband and children to see. I will buy more of Mitch Album's books. A great writer
2820462
this ones is written so well that you will beleve it really happened. once you start to read it you will have to finnish it