Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War Mass market paperbound - 1999
by Ed Kugler
As a sniper in the hot, bloody jungles of Vietnam, Ed Kugler served with regular Marine companies and in the elite Force Recon, going deep into enemy territory in small teams of highly trained warriors. He delivered death from half a mile away and watched his best friends bleed out their young lives in a strange land. In this book, Kugler portrays the courage, brutality, sacrifice, and tragedy of the unforgettable American experience called Vietnam.
From the jacket flap
WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS,
EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST.
Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966.
As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley for VC and NVA. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating.
In DEAD CENTER, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush skills, and guts--while underscoring exactly what a country demands of its youth when it sends them to war.
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- Title Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
- Author Ed Kugler
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition 1st
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-05-29
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780804118750 / 0804118752
- Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 6.87 x 4.15 x 1.08 in (17.45 x 10.54 x 2.74 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Personal
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99090065
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Ingram Paperback Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 41
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