Reviews

... Not a left-wing appeasement book, nor a'muddle-headed Utopian plea for unilateral withdrawal and disarmament. Like every good and true war novel, it simply demands answers to a few very painful and generally evaded questions ... one of the most important books to come along in many months.LOS ANGELES TIMES... Like a sawed-off shotgun under your nose. If we stopper our ears to the basic question about morality and individual responsibility, we might as well go "back to believing that Nuremberg is best remembered as the setting for Die Melstersinger.BOOK WEEK... The kind of book which might very well change a few minds... It makes us see ourselves caught in the moral vacuity of our position in Vietnam.THE NATION... Compelling ... dares to bring to mind the incubus of the Great Society ... recommended.AMERICAN MERCURY... we are horrified to watch fear turn into cruelty, and frustration into a desire for apocalyptic destruction, and it is impossible for us to entertain such horror in a detached way.LONDON LITERARY SUPPLEMENT... A hell of a book... It leaves you sick at heart.LONDON CITIZEN... It is a bloody, bloody war, and a bloody, bloody book, and right.LONDON TRIBUNE... A story of Vietnam and massacre and it has an authentic sound to it.NEW STATESMAN