Andrew Atherton is the pen name of a retired philosophy professor and Vietnam vet. Although he was trained as an infantryman, Atherton was instead assigned as clerk in his company's headquarters while the rest of his company ended up fighting in the infamous Hamburger Hill battle. During his off-hours, he wrote vignettes about his experiences. After battling depression upon his return, he published several of the stories in literary journals and has now combined them into one narrative.
"With raw and courageous honesty, DRAFTED vividly illustrates the
horrific transformation of a reluctant civilian into a killer
soldier. Pulls no punches. No self-serving defenses. A tour de
force!" --- Timothy J. Lomperis, author of Reading the Wind: The
Literature of the Vietnam War and The Vietnam War from the Rear
Echelon: An Intelligence Officer's Memoir, 1972-1973
"Totally free of the cliches that tarnish so many other books ...
highly recommend Drafted for those who wish to learn what the
majority of us did in Vietnam, the 80 to 90 percent who were in the
rear with the beer and the gear ... one of the best of the small
heap of REMF books that have been written about that part of the
Vietnam War."--David Willson, The VVA Veteran, the magazine of
Vietnam Veterans of America
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