326 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, map ; 21 cm
regular print
Contents
1. "Cherries" : first impressions -- 2. "Humping the boonies" -- 3. Beyond the body count -- 4. Base camp : war at the rear -- 5. "World of hurt" -- 6. "What am I doing here" -- 7. t "We gotta get out of this place" -- 8. Last letters
Summary
Contains letters and poems written to families and friends by soldiers expressing their homesickness and the horrors of war
