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Summary: Outstanding Coverage of Special Forces Covert Operations
Review: Col Nicholson does a fine job of describing the horrors of our no-win war policy in Vietnam. I was an USAF Air Commando U-10 pilot during his first tour (1966) primarily supporting 5th Special Forces, in II Corps. Having worked with many A- Teams and Maj Jerry Dodds Mike Force out of Pleiku, I can attest to what Thom says. We not only fought the VC and NVA, we had a side war going with Gen Vinh Loc, the corrupt commander of II Corps, and the LLDB, his tribute-extracting personal Gestapo. There were time when I wished we could have merged the Air Commandos and Special Forces and formed a new Service. Neither organization was getting on well with the high brass in our respective services. Thom, thanks for telling it like it was.
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Summary: A POWERFUL, ACTION-PACKED NARRATIVE OF LIFE IN CCN
Review: COL. NICHOLSON'S BOOK IS A REAL TREAT. IT PROVIDES AN INSIDE LOOK AT AMERICA'S MOST ELITE FIGHTING UNIT, SOG. THE MEN OF GROUND OPS-35 WERE, WITHOUT A DOUBT, SOME OF THE MOST COURAGEOUS SOLDIERS OF THE WAR IN VIETNAM. IN HIS BOOK, COL. THOMPSON TELLS OF HEROISM, THE HORROR, THE HUMOR AND THE HEARTBREAK THAT WAS DAILY LIFE AT CCN. I SIMPLY COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN.
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Summary: The Real Deal
Review: Easy to read, easy to understand, brutally honest, true to life and about bravery.
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Summary: personalized, insightful look into secret spec. operations
Review: Easy, good reading. personalized account of a very dangerous tour of duty from a veteran Spec. Ops officer. Good account of how this soldier handled his personal war. Wide range of emotional situations handled with integrity, truth and honor.
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Summary: Compelling, up-close first person account of Viet Nam war
Review: Five Stars!!! Up close and personal. Not since reading SLA Marshall's books have I read anything so up close to the individual soldier. The big difference is Marshall just wrote about it. Nicholson did it and than had the ability to write about it. I hope the rest of his life experiences are as compelling and he chooses to write about them.
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Summary: A fun book to read if you know anything about the military
Review: Having served time in the Military, I understand pretty much everything that the author is talking about. It is exciting as you turn each page, you can actually see the author grow as as the story progresses. It isn't difficult to finish this book in one sitting. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves this type of adventure/Military Story. Belive me, It's just a fun book to read!
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Summary: Review of A Warrior's Tour
Review: I expected a lot more from this book. The events occurred almost 30 years ago, and the book was written as if they occurred last year. The book is totally dependant on Mr. Nicholson's memory. He had an opportunity to give the reader some real insights into the operation of SOG from conception of an action to its execution. "15 Months in SOG - A Warrior's Tour" reads more like a war novel, and it leaves the reader feeling that something is missing.
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Summary: Review of A Warrior's Tour
Review: I expected a lot more from this book. The events occurred almost 30 years ago, and the book was written as if they occurred last year. The book is totally dependant on Mr. Nicholson's memory. He had an opportunity to give the reader some real insights into the operation of SOG from conception of an action to its execution. "15 Months in SOG - A Warrior's Tour" reads more like a war novel, and it leaves the reader feeling that something is missing.
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Summary: I shared the anxiety, fear and adrenaline rush of the troops
Review: I expected that each adventurous segment of ingress and egress to the land of the enemy would be similar and become boring, not so in this action packed and lethal account of a soldier's experience in a place and time which have left a scar on the minds of all Americans old enough to rember the 60s.Thom's descriptions had me feeling the sweat, rain, stinging insects, mus and fear of the bad guys as he and his company of trained killers crept through the jungles. I was awed by the progressive emotional changes as the young offocer was transformed from a gung ho machine to a man anxious for his time to leave it all behind him. The loss of comrades and friends to both enemy and frindly fire wore heavily on the hero of this saga. I have known the author since before his Army days and I could hear his voice in every quotation and I know that it was a true representation of events. I believe that every tale of this book was written with a minimum of embelishments for the sake of sensationalism. I liked it and recommend it to anyone who wants to feel the way it must have been to be dropped off, abandoned and withdrawn from dangerous situations.
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Summary: Sat down to read it and never made dinner that night!
Review: I have read a few books on Vietnam, but most were confusing terms and not told like a story. This author makes the different places visited seem more real. He tells it like a story, not a military order. You only want to keep reading and reading, because you like him and his comrades so much. I enjoyed this book as much as some fiction novels I have read. You will close the book feeling like you know the author, and that you were with him. You will think of the chapters for days after. Everyone should read this book.
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