Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1974.  ISBN 0-283-98279-9.  MMPB, 144 pages including Afterword and Appendices.  Wraps have some edge and cover wear, reading creases along front spine edge, scar and some small impressions on front wrap.  Binding sound.  Prior owner’s name on half-title page along with a short gutter tear; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘… a novel which describes some of the activities of an infantry division in Vietnam in the spring of 1968 during a period of three days. … What seemed to me most tragic about our participation in the Vietnam War was that too often men were called upon to die for causes they either did not comprehend or to which they took great personal exception:  though not so great exception as to make them avoid what they felt was their commitment to serve their country when it called on them to do so.  The book represents my attempt to write about that tragedy.’ (from Preface)