Year of the Horse-Vietnam

by Kenneth D. Mertel

Book Overview

This book is the day-by-day story of the Jumping Mustangs - 1st Ballalion, Airborne, 8th Cavalry, of the 1st Air Cavalry Division, written by the man who knows them best. 1st Air Cav Lieutenant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553283073
• ISBN13: 9780553283075
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Some superb "Air Cav'" reading...

I won't begrudge the previous reviewer his opinion, but I did not find the book dry, in fact even if you flip through it, you see all manner of assessment, adaptations, etc. -- after all, the subtite is: "Air Cavalry: A New Kind of War--You Learned as You Fought". I found the author's telling of his story to be descriptive & illustrative. I don't believe the author ever did intend to produce a grand sweeping socio-political analysis of the war or the era, so if he set out instead to convey what he experienced as a participant in fledgling heliborne air assault warfare.