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On this gripping memoir, a ex - marine results to Vietnam to try to make sense of the warfare. Previously shared as Brothers in Biceps and triceps, this edition includes a new preface by the writer. When William Broyles Jr. was drafted, he was a twenty-four-year-old learner at Oxford University in England, hoping to avoid military services service. During his physical exam, however, he recognized that he couldn't let social school or education give him special privileges. He signed up with the marines, and soon commanded an infantry platoon in the foothills near Da Nang. More than a ten years later, Broyles found himself flooded with feelings during the determination of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. He decided to go back to Vietnam and confront what he'd experienced. Broyles was one of the very first battle veterans to come back to the battlefields. No North american before or since has gone so deeply in to the other aspect of the warfare: the opponent aspect. Broyles interviews dozens of Vietnamese, from the generals who ran the warfare to the women and men who fought it. He steps from the corridors of power in Hanoi - so low-tech that the plumbing related didn't work - to the jungles and rice paddies where he'd fought. He fulfills survivors of North american B-52 hits and My Lai, and grieves with a woman whose child was wiped out by his own platoon. Along the way, Broyles also explores the deep bonds he shared with his own comrades, and the secret of why men love warfare even while they hate it. Amidst the scenery of loss of life, his formerly faceless opponents become more active. They had once tried to kill one another, but they are brothers now.
