“The great war stories do not deal solely with the death of soldiers but with the death of idealism, and Bryan’s handling of that theme is certainly the finest that has come out of the Vietnam War.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Not since Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood . . . has there been as powerful, as emotional a piece of non-fiction.” —The Washington Star

“A gripping tale, a masterpiece . . . Begin this book and you may well not be able to put it down until you have consumed it.” —Cleveland Press

“A triumph . . . Bryan has entered an elusive realm of universal truths related to war. . . . He engages us—in a way that no Vietnam polemic or slogan or documentary or drama yet has.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“C.D.B. Bryan has dramatized the tragedy [of Vietnam] as it has never been dramatized before. . . . Powerful . . . I found myself close to tears of rage and frustration.” —The New York Times

“To read this book is to weep, to despair and ultimately to cheer. . . . It is a work of passionate energy.” —The Washington Post Book World

“Writing so fine, so brilliantly done, that it sometimes seems as if Eugene O’Neill were alive and well and practicing journalism.” —The Boston Globe

“Great visceral power and emotional impact.” —Publishers Weekly

“As close to elemental tragedy as any nonfiction account to come out of the war. Bryan conveys Peg Mullen’s grief and rage with such purity and tact that at times she seems like a Middle Western Antigone.” —Time

“Powerfully affecting . . . A dramatic comment on what the war did to America.” —Saturday Review

“Records the entire spectrum of attitudes and emotions, moral issues and political viewpoints which embroiled America over Vietnam . . . Bryan has documented a situation which details the paradox of war.” —The Christian Science Monitor