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As a first lieutenant in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry, Frank Boccia led a platoon in two intense battles in the Vietnamese mountains in April and May 1969: Dong Ngai and the grinding, 11-day battle of Dong Ap Bia--the Mountain of the Crouching Beast, in Vietnamese, or Hamburger Hill as it is popularly known. The Rakkasans, the 3/187th, are the most highly decorated unit in the history of the United States Army, and two of those decorations were awarded for these two battles. This vivid account of the author's first seven months in Vietnam gives special attention to the events at Dong Ap Bia, following the ­hard-­hit 3/187th hour by hour through its repeated assaults on the mountain, against an unseen enemy in an ideal defensive position. It also corrects several errors that have persisted in histories and official reports of the battle. Beyond describing his own experiences and reactions, the author writes, "I want to convey the real face of war, both its mindless carnage and its nobility of spirit. Above all, I want to convey what happened to both the casual reader and the military historian and make them aware of the extraordinary spirit of the men of First Platoon, Bravo Company. They were ordinary men doing extraordinary things."

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I first became aware of Frank Boccia's book while giving an oral history interview for Texas Technical University's Vietnam Veterans Oral History project. After listening to part of Boccia's interview and hearing a reference to the book, I decided to buy it. It is simply outstanding.America's history of major battles in the A Shau Valley can be bookended by two excellent books. The first, battalion commander Harold Moore's "We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young," tells the story of the First Cav's initial foray into the Ia Drang in November 1965, early in America's involvement in the Vietnam conflict . Boccia's tells of his experience with the 101st Airborne's return to the A Shau in May 1969. In each case, we had poor intelligence, vastly under estimated the strength of the NVA forces entrenched there, and absent overwhelming air power, would most likely have suffered a defeat on the ground. In spite of our "victories", and demeaning the sacrifices of the American soldiers who so bravely fought there, in both cases we quit the field shortly after the battle and the NVA returned in force.Boccia's tale is told from the vantage of an inexperienced, but talented and committed, platoon leader who grows quickly during this two-week battle, even temporarily taking over as functional company CO for a few days. He tells his story with heart-felt honesty, occasional humor and literary reference, and clearly cares for his men and is committed to being the best platoon leader he can be. This in spite of an indifferent CO at the outset, and a demanding, bullying battalion commander - "Blackjack" Honeycutt - throughout.While the movie "Hamburger Hill" was entertaining with it's too cool platoon sergeants and WW II era enlisted stereotypes (with the angry Black brothers added for 1960's cinema verite), Boccia's book is more like Clint Eastwoods "Unforgiven" or "The Revenant" - unrelenting, punishing, with survival the only (questionable) redemption to be found. Read it if you wish to see an unvarnished portrait of ground war at its ugliest and experience it from within. Hat's off to Boccia for having the courage and honesty to tell his tale.Having extolled the virtues of this book I would like to voice two quibbles with the execution. First, unlike the excellent maps and tactical deployment representations in Moore's book, my Kindle version of Boccia's book was without any such important aids to understanding and topographic visualization. Moore's book also benefited from the contributions of the NVA troops leader's understanding of the battle from their standpoint. Secondly, Boccia's book greatly needs a review by a human editor or textually sensitive spell check. Time and again an incorrect word choice ("cable" for "cobble", "hid" for "his'. "sown" for "down") breaks the flow of the story. These short-comings should in no way keep you from reading "The Crouching Beast", it's just that Boccia's tale deserves better than it got in the way of editing and illustration.Thank you, Frank, for this brutally honest book. It could not have been easy to relive these experiences.

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