An Unforgettable Memoir of Courage and Transformation
In his unputdownable memoir, Last Light with the Boys, Prescott Puck Smith takes the reader beyond the conventional experience of war. He takes us beyond the fighting and maneuvers of warfare to the rarely reported and barely shown wounds a war causes in the human soul.
From Ordinary to Extraordinary
It begins with the story of a seemingly ordinary man – a schoolteacher and a college basketball star turned soldier – who is challenged through extraordinary circumstances and drafted into the U.S. Army at the height of the Vietnam conflict.
Thus, the reader witnesses a complete transformation of the soldier who survives the storm-tossed seas of Infantry Officer Candidate School, which is followed by leading Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrols in some of the most impenetrable jungles of Southeast Asia.
The Harsh Realities of Combat in Vietnam
These vivid descriptions offered by Smith strip away the sanitized covers put over the Vietnam War experiences by others. In fact, it is the best Vietnam War book to know the true horrors that these men would meet day to day. The constant dangers of booby traps, the overwhelming sensorial bombardment of battle, and the heartbreakingly devastating loss of comrades – all of it has been narrated in a way that demands the undivided attention of the reader.
