This was a kindle book I received for free from Amazon. I started reading it long after I'd gotten it, and forgot what it was about. It started out very good! Here is a poor, abused boy who learns to fight from his elderly neighbor. I was engrossed and read it very quickly, but then the whole book changed. Suddenly it was only about him being a soldier and was strictly a war novel. A very detailed war novel, all about exactly every little thing happening as they fought in the Vietnam war. If you love war books and movies, this book is for you. I don't. I started skimming it, hoping to get back to a real story, but it just wasn't coming. This may be a good book for some, but not for me. You might want to just read the first half for a good book, and then stop like I did.