

A former platoon leader reflects on his troubled father, the meaning of leadership, and living life on the front lines in "one of the finest soldier memoirs of the Vietnam War" (The Boston Globe)

"Father, Soldier, Sonwill stand as one of the finest soldier memoirs of the Vietnam War . . . If all that has been written about the war in Vietnam, in fiction and nonfiction, has made it a familiar story to some, Tripp overcomes cliché by individualizing every well-known fact."...