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In part the novel develops conventionally, with these fresh troops given a large assignment to penetrate and clear the enemy from certain fictional areas of South Vietnam. Francis Holden Ill, who carries the novel's antiwar burden and is its leading martyr, although nearly all the company gets wiped out when their camp is overrun. Kahn, the company commander, a Southern Jew and recent geology major, and Lt. Brill, a rapist psychopath who eventually sets the climax in motion. Of these the only one who stands out and genuinely holds our interest is the villain, Lt. This long foreword introduces us to a very large cast of stereotypes who speak fearlessly in some of the least accurate dialect-writing since early O'Neill. The story begins with Bravo Company, Fourth Battalion, Seventh Cavalry embarking from the States and heading across the Pacific for the Far East. An ambitious war novel-Vietnam, 1966-that has its moments but misses in both large and small ways, mainly by being walleyed.
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