John McComb
Autor von Eleven Months Eighteen Days
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Someone once said, “Combat is hours of boredom punctuated by seconds of stark terror.” Most books about combat focus on the seconds and give the hours short shrift. This 102 page book acknowledges the seconds when they occur (usually in the form of incoming rockets, mortar fire, or enemy shelling) but spends most of its time describing the hours that were consumed by the daily routines of life that are a necessary part of keeping a firebase in a state of readiness in a theater of combat. The book reads well and the author does an excellent job of conveying to the reader the reality of service on a firebase during war time.… (mehr)