Two outstanding memoirs from enviably erudite and grounded foreign-service wallahs:
Ninety-Day Wonder: Flight To Geurrilla War by John Ryder Horton
http://www.amazon.com/Ninety-Day-Won...1157275&sr=1-1
Tiger In The Barbed Wire: An American In Vietnam 1952-1991 by Howard R. Simpson
http://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Barbed-W...1157183&sr=1-2
Also, Richard McKenna's justly popular, The Sand Pebbles, is perhaps one of the great works of American Fiction. The film is pretty (expletive) good, too..."Holman, come down!"
http://www.amazon.com/Sand-Pebbles-B...1158273&sr=1-1
The Mad Magazine take, "The Sam Pebbles", from 1968...
http://www.thesandpebbles.com/mad_ma...andpebbles.htm
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