Close Quarters Author:Larry Heinemann Like many other high school graduates in the 1960s, Philip Dosier found that if he didn't have plans for himself, his country certainly did. Shipped off to fight in a war he knew nothing about, he found himself in a world of violence, fear, heat, and squalor unlike anything that he ever dreamed could exist. Told in the unflinchingly accurate ... more »language of the field soldier--fast, rough slang that becomes a kind of surreal poetry--CLOSE QUARTERS is the story of Dosier's year in Vietnam. "An unremittingly honest look into the black pit of war...[Larry Heinemann's] voice is clear and true." (The New York Times)« less