The realization of war's danger and destruction contrasted with the grisly attraction of war as man's ultimate game, the maximum test of survival. In one riveting sequence after another, Webb builds a crescendo of stunning images more damning than any news story: the atrocities; the telling scenes of contrast between the degraded life of the "grunts"in the field and the easy life of the military higher-ups; and the final, climactic battle scene on the field of fire.

A paperback.