Phil Gioia grew up an army brat during the decades after World War
II. Drawn to the military, he attended the Virginia Military
Institute, then was commissioned in the U.S. Army, where he
completed Jump School and Ranger School. Not even a year after
college graduation, he landed in Vietnam in early 1968-in the first
weeks of the Tet offensive, which marked a major escalation of the
war. Commanding a company in the 82nd Airborne Division, Gioia led
his paratroopers into the city of Hue for intense fighting-danger
was always just around the corner -and the grisly discovery of mass
graves. Wounded, he was sent home in May but returned with the 1st
Cavalry Division a year later, this time leading a rucksack company
of light infantry. Inserted into far-flung landing zones, Gioia and
his men patrolled the jungles and rubber plantations along the
Cambodian border, looking for a furtive enemy who preferred
ambushes to set-piece battles and nighttime raids to daylight
attacks. Danger Close! recounts the Vietnam War from the unique
boots-on-the-ground perspective of a young officer who served two
tours in two different divisions. He tells his story thoughtfully,
straightforwardly, and always vividly, from the raw emotions of
unearthing massacred human beings to the terrors of fighting in the
dark, with red and green tracers slicing the air. Hard to put down
and hard to forget, Danger Close! will remind readers of the best
Vietnam memoirs, like Guns Up! and Baptism.
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