Into the Green A Reconnaissance by Fire

Into the Green is Cherokee Paul McDonald's stark & stirring account of his three years as an Artillery Forward Observer in Vietnam. Born out of memories & emotions, & the weight of conscience, it is an eloquent meditation on what it means to be a soldier. McDonald tells his story "in the voice of memory; as a writer looking back." He wanted to capture the immediacy of war moment by moment -- the tastes, the textures, the colors, smells, & emotions that have stayed with him forever. In a series of interlocking episodes he describes the daily grind of military life & the terror & brutality of active combat. He talks about the men who were his comrades & friends & nights spent in the impenetrable darkness of steaming jungles beneath a triple canopy of green in the central highlands of Vietnam. An indelible portrait of a soldier, & of the physical & emotional destruction that is the legacy of all wars. Into the Green is a haunting chronicle of a place & a time that will never fade from memory. "Riveting.... Former First Lt. Cherokee Paul McDonald is a gifted & perceptive writer.... By turns compelling, heartrending, & profoundly moving." --Les Standiford, author of Black Mountain & Deal with the Dead.McDonald, Cherokee Paul is the author of 'Into the Green A Reconnaissance by Fire' with ISBN 9780452282520 and ISBN 0452282527.