The Hill

by Leonard B. Scott

Book Overview

Ty is the grunt. Point man for his platoon. Jason is the favored one: a football hero picked for officer training school who leads his men into a slaughter ground from which most of them will never return. Ty and Jason -- Oklahoma brothers different in character, yet close in soul -- are about to meet in the Battle of Dak To, upon the blood-drenched sides of Hill 875.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345355563
• ISBN13: 9780345355560
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Military Authors to Date

I have read them all from Clancy to Brown and LtCol.(Ret) Scott is by far one of the best military writers to date. My father served in Vietnam and after he came back my mom said he was never the same and I always wondered what it was like, why men like my father and Col Scott, why they went when they were called knowing they might not return and those that did would be forever altered. I joined the infantry at 17 to see for myself and after serving in Panama and Somalia I understand. Col. Scott says it best in the books with way he connects you to the characters you come to realize they did it for the men to their left and their right, not so much for America, but the men who represent America. Sad to know that he won't be writing anymore books but the four vietnam books he wrote are some of the greatest military fiction ever written and in my opinion should be required reading for all young soldiers and leaders.

What can I say, but what a great book.

The way that Scott writes the story to the hill is extravagant. Not only do you see the one side perspective from the Brothers you also get to see it from the Vietnamese side. As one knows you need to know the two sides of the coin in order to get the real truth. This book like SCott's others is truly something else.

Good Stuff

The horrors of the Vietnam War come to life in this novel. You identify with the characters, and almost feel like you are with them. Being in the Army, this book scares me. What if it was me there? Could I be so courageous? Would I survive? It scares me to think about it.

Great Book! Suspect more fact than fiction. Like you were th

This is one of a series of books by this author. He ought to know,commanded troops in theater. every one of his novels, esp this one make you feel as if you are there. You feel as if these characters are your brothers.

Excellent story of courage, loyalty and war.

This novel takes two brothers, Ty and Jason and follows them into the Army and finally into the harrowing battle at Dak To. The story is well told and filled with action, desperate battles, the conflict between the two brothers and the sweeping background of America at war.