I was going to post back about opinions from readers who actually worked with ARVN and could offer informed opinions. I got a lot of emails, but only a couple (literally two — they cancelled out, one pro, one con) from guys who’d fought alongside ARVN. Practically all of the rest offered opinions that looked uncannily similar. As an old schoolmaster & examination grader, I know when students have all been cribbing from the same source, and that source was Sorley’s book. A lot of readers are clearly great fans of the book. Now, I haven’t read it, and for all I know it may be the last word on the closing phases of the VN war (there are some anti-Sorley dissidents); but this just isn’t what I was looking for.