They were the 9th Cavalry Blues, striking by helicopter into the heart of the Vietnamese jungle. They brought the battle to the enemy – and saw more deadly combat in a month than most line troops did in a year. Brennan was a bright, quiet Midwesterner. Somewhere in the swift relentless savagery he got hooked on war. Three years over and 400 assaults later, Matthew Brennan came home. His story is a firsthand account of life and death in Vietnam, from the point of view of an elite air cavalry assault soldier. In the tradition of the greatest military memoirs, Brennan’s war lays bare the courage, the cowardice, the strategy and the chaos that is war – and the state of mind that was Vietnam.