{"product_id":"combat-bandsman-robert-f-fischer-9781476664811","title":"Combat Bandsman: Memoir of a Tour in Vietnam with the 9th Infantry Division, 1969","description":"\u003cp\u003e Playing trumpet in the 9th Infantry Division Band should have been a safe assignment but the Viet Cong swarmed throughout the Mekong Delta, and safety was nonexistent. The band's twofold mission--boosting morale and helping win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese--required them to leave their Đồng Tam (a.k.a. Mortar City) base camp and travel through a vast area of rice paddies, dense jungle and numerous villages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e By 1969, home-front support for the war had dwindled and the U.S. Army in Vietnam was on the brink of mutiny. No one wanted to die under the command of career-minded officers in a war lost to misguided politics. This memoir of a conscripted musician in Vietnam provides a personal account of the lunacy surrounding combat support service in the 9th Infantry Division during the months prior to its withdrawal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert F. Fischer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476664811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476664811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Robert F. Fischer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44065859207423,"sku":"9781476664811","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4876d607-a755-4697-ae43-b06c84b0c6c7.jpg?v=1685403914","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/combat-bandsman-robert-f-fischer-9781476664811","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}