Dying Place

Very good, accurate and gives insight into the units operations during the war.

I have dozens of Vietnam war special warfare books and without a doubt "The Dying Place" is the best one out there. You would be a fool to pass this book up. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Like another reviewer, this book was so good that I read it more than once. The reader feels an adrenaline rush with the author as he's running for his life to get to the LZ for extraction. Very vivid feel for what it must have been like deep in enemy territory with a small recon team. After reading this, read SOG by Major Plaster (a great history of the Studies and Observations Group). Although The Dying Place is written as fiction, you will recognize some of the characters.

Picked this one up as an afterthought while in my favorite second hand bookstore here in Tasmania. Read it in two days and then went straight back and read it again. I've read a few books in my time and I've never done that. I was going to give it 4 stars because almost all of your reviews for your books are 5 star but this one most definately deserves 5. I enjoy a good war story and this is one of the best. Hang on tight as you go along on this white knuckle ride with a ragtag team of LRRPS behind enemy lines in vietnam. Just coming out alive is a victory in itself. A word of warning to finish, don't lend it to anyone because you will not get it back.