Accidental Soldier: A Reserve Officer at West Point in the Vietnam Era

by Richard Schwartz and Richard B. Schwartz

Accidental Soldier depicts Richard B. Schwartz's military experiences, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1959, Vietnam was little more than a word on a map; within ten years, Americans saw the Tet Offensive and their campuses in flames. Schwartz was at the ground zeroes of that time, teaching at the United States Military Academy from 1967-69 and then going to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761848355
• ISBN13: 9780761848356
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"