Authors: W. E. B. Griffin
ISBN-13: 9780515092264, ISBN-10: 0515092266
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: July 1988
Edition: Reprint
Fellow bestselling author Tom Clancy is right on target when he describes W.E.B. Griffin -- world renowned for his military and police novels filled with vivid detail and dead-on accuracy -- as "a storyteller in the grand tradition, probably the best man around for describing the military community."
From the blistering jungles of Vietnam to the far-flung battlefields of the African Congo, they faced the turmoil of a new era. It was a different kind of war. But the courage and skill of these young fighting men were an American tradition. Like their fathers before them, they rose up to the ultimate challenge of military valor, holding their own in a storm of clashing cultures. They were America's new breed. The proudest and the best...
''The New Breed'' is absorbing, salted-peanuts reading. Mr. Griffin is an Army veteran himself, and his proficiency on the word processor convinces one that old soldiers never die, they just write away. -- New York Times