Life and Death in the Central Highlands: An American Sergeant in the Vietnam War, 1968-1970 Volume 5

by James T. Gillam

Featured in The Vietnam War PBS series by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick

In 1968 James T. Gillam was a poorly focused college student at Ohio University who was dismissed and then drafted into the Army. Unlike most African-Americans who entered the Army then, he became a Sergeant and an instructor at the Fort McClellan Alabama School of Infantry. In September 1968 he joined the First Battalion, 22nd Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574412922
• ISBN13: 9781574412925
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"