Maj. Ron Beckett had already served two tours in Vietnam when he
received orders to return in April 1969. As the district senior advisor
in the remote, rural Dinh Quan District of Long Khanh Province, he would
face a demanding and dangerous assignment on the front lines of
pacification.- A sometimes critical, sometimes humorous, always honest
memoir of the American campaign to win Vietnamese hearts and minds-
Details Beckett's and his team's efforts to support combat missions,
gather intelligence, improve infrastructure, develop the local economy,
and above all gain the trust of a people whose language they did not
speak