About Face by Ward Just, Julie Sherman, David H. Hackworth

875 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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Colonel Hackworth was the youngest 'Old Man' in the Korean War, and the youngest full colonel in Vietnam. To this day, he is America's most decorated living soldier. Yet he is also the reputed model for the infamous Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now...

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