Amazon.com description: Product Description: Comprised of short stories, novel excerpts, and journalistic accounts, Touring Nam follows the twelve-month deadly tour of duty that many suffered in Vietnam. We arrive in country with vivid stories about dismal living conditions and the clammy fear of what lies ahead; then move to our first taste of combat in Contact, portraying the alternating terror and boredom of life in the jungle. As we enter the heart of the tour, pieces describe the odd routines and peculiar rhythms of daily life in Vietnam--and the strange experience of R&R in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Finally, we reach last days of duty in The World, poignant stories about the conflicted emotions of returning to real life and home. With such notable voices as Asa Barber and Tim OBrien, Touring Nam is a classic collection of the literature and experience of Vietnam.