Run Through the Jungle

Real Adventures in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade

De: Larry J. Musson

Narrado por: David Drummond

From Larry J. Musson comes an authentic account of combat with an airborne company in the waterlogged rice paddies and demanding jungles of South Vietnam. Share the experiences of fighting men under punishing conditions, extreme temperatures, and intense monsoon rains as they search for the enemy in the rugged mountains and teeming lowlands. Relive all the terror, humor, and sadness of one man's tour of duty with real-life action in spectacular, stunning detail.

©2015 Larry J. Musson (P)2017 Tantor

THANK YOU

My husband was a Vietnam Veteran in 69-70. He would never tell me about his experience. Thank you for sharing your experiences. This book has given me an idea of what he must have gone through.

Compelling memoir.

Narration: clear.


Story: compelling content...poignant experiences....among the better memoirs.

Recomended.....no5 among best but nonetheless good. Worth a listen.

A good story for a non military person

Easy to follow educational insightful personal story of one man’s experience in Viet Nam. I have listened to several books on Viet Nam and World War 2 and found this book easier to follow than most. Not full of military jargon.

Worth it

Well worth your time. A grunts story about his experiences in A line company in Nam.

everything

loved every minute of it. great narrative and writing. much respect to the US SOLDIERS of Vietnam

Unique Memoir of Vietnam War

The title comes from Musson's (Muss) experiences when his platoon had to run through the jungle to get to a helicopter pickup point, and they didn't have time to figure out if enemy or booby traps were there. Real scary, but these things happened.

Muss tells about several things that I hadn't come across in other memoirs or accounts. He tells about what he saw along the regular roads, how people were really living and things they did. Some of this was depressing, and it's new material that changed my perspectives.

One of the subjects Muss covers in a way that's completely new is the fragging of officers and NCOs, how it really was up close. This was real life and I've never seen it covered like this before.

From other sources we see how much the strategy of attrition was used in the war. But Muss simply recounts events and interactions for his infantry unit on the ground, and one can draw their own conclusions. In a war of attrition, survival is based in large part on luck.

Muss was lucky in some ways and unlucky in others. He had many close calls where he would have been killed except for luck. But he wasn't usually lucky when it came to enjoying time off or coming home to his girlfriend. Without warning or apparent cues, she married somebody else.

Great book!

Good book

Sgt Musson is a down to Earth guy. No "hero" stuff here. i think that I would have enjoyed serving with him. His recollection of spending 135 consecutive days in the bush without going back to the base, being resupplied only by helicopter is unlike any other unit I'm aware of. He has a nice sense of humor. The reader is excellent.

Good POV run and gun story

Not better than some others, but its worth the read. Similar book to Walking Point.

An excellent story

I thoroughly enjoyed this account of Vietnam. I feel like it is a underrated book full of some fantastic first hand accounts.

One of the best!

I am well read and served in the US Marine Corp. 1961 to 1967. This book was the best account with a simple overture to the War in Vietnam a reader.might come away with. Thankful I am to the author and those who gave it life.