Blood on the Risers
An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam
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4.7 • 112 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it.
As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often it seemed the only way out of the carnage in the Central highlands was in a body bag.
But Leppelman did get out, transferring first to the army's riverboats and then the all-volunteer Rangers, one of the ballsiest units in the war. In three tours of duty, that ended only when malaria forced him back to the States, Leppelman saw the war as few others did, a Vietnam that many American boys didn't live to tell about, but whose valor and sacrifice survive on these pages.
Customer Reviews
A warrior’s warrior
Don’t miss this one, one of my favorite Vietnam memoirs and I’ve read nearly all of them. Definitely agree the press had an agenda to end war which the communists latched onto. If people in the US knew how the NVA/VC killed & buried (as well as buried alive) 4000 or so educators, politicians, and students in Hue alone during the Tet offensive -the cowardice morons on our college campuses probably wouldn’t have had much wind in their sails! Now the 20 something “reporters” are in their 70s and these “news” -spelled propaganda- outlets have brainwashed half our country. “Politically Correct” is a marxist term!! Wake up people!!!
WOW!
I didn’t want to put the book down once I started reading! Truly an amazing account of one of the many who served our country!
Great read
1st hand account of the issues which cause the army to fall behind. Thank you sir.