Excerpt from Review: "...I was engrossed in A Tiger Among Us from page one. The book is well-written and descriptive, allowing us to see what it was like for one Green Beret who risked it all in battle to take out countless enemies and save lives amongst his fellow soldiers. It’s a fast and captivating read that I would definitely recommend to any history aficionado with particular interest in the Vietnam War."

Sgt First class Bernie Atkins takes you back in time in the Vietnam War and his time with the Green Berets. He leads you through his early years before enlisting and then takes you through his boot camp and regular enlistment until he decided to volunteer for the Green Berets. He then takes you through some of their training back then. You also get a small sample of his first deployment to Vietnam. The book is really about when most Special forces were assigned or working with a program called SOG which really was not talked about much until after the 70’s. My father being in the military I had heard about it but did not know what they did. Hear in this book this man will talk about it somewhat. What this story is really about is his actions along with others when they were outnumbered 10-1. Sgt Atkins would lay down fire, rescue down helicopter pilots that had come in to try to take out the wounded. Proved cover when other choppers came in to take out wounded and would hopefully drop off ammo because they were running out. All the while keeping his men on point to not be over run. This area was located near the Ho Chi Men trail an area where we Americans were not supposed be but where the Vietnamese were getting all of their supplies, and men. So in any other war cutting of supply lines is always one goal towards victory, not this war because we were not allowed to go into that country. Hence why Special Force’s units like this one was there. Also why it took 40 years for then Command Sgt Major Bernie Atkins to be recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor. This is an excellent story and what makes it so good is that it is real. I am glad he and others Veterans are being recognized all of these years later for the acts of valor. A very good book.

A very engaging read! I could not put this book down! The Vietnam Era was a rough one for those in the service, but this hero provides a read that is straight out of the movies! As a history teacher, this is one that I will be recommending to my students to read, as the history is there, but it reads more like a novel, so they can learn without feeling as though they are bored.

A fantastic story told by a true hero!

This book is the memoir of a Green Beret who survived the battle of the A Shau valley in Vietnam and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor over 40 years later. The book reads like the script to the John Wayne movie, The Green Berets. The movie has many elements of the true story: the camp in the A Shau valley being overrun by the NVA, the arrival of Puff the Magic Dragon airplane (which unfortunately was shot down before it could unleash its magic), and heroism of the Special Forces Green Berets. If you are interested in unvarnished true life stories, this is a good read. It is not written by a professional writer, but it moves quickly and is quite entertaining.
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing a pre-publication version of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Some books are not worthy of those in the rear to even comment on.
A God given gift to America were men like these; we can just pray there are a few left.
Great book