1996 1st edition "First Edition" stated; "America's most decorated living soldier reeports from the front and tells it the way it is"; William Morrow and Company publishers, New York; hardbound in black boards with gilt lettering along spine; very good condition with unmarked pages, appears unread; dust jacket very good.
 
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The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller About Face, Colonel David H. Hackworth is one of America's most decorated soldiers, having served at the end of World War II, and in Korea and Vietnam. Retired from the military since 1971, he has completed second tour of battlefield duty -- this time as a war correspondent -- accompanying our nation's fighting men and women to the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea and Haiti. What he learned of high-level military incompetence, futility and corruption in the heat and fury of Desert Storm -- and in the desperation of the Balkans and Mogadishu -- is shocking, frightening and infuriating...and it must be told.