"[This book] follows the experiences of Tom Newman, a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division in Viet Nam in 1968... Tom was assigned to the 1/502nd, known as 'First Strike'... Tom participated in seventy-six helicopter insertions, fifty-four of which were into hot LZs... [His] experiences ran from the Tet Offensive to the A Shua Valley... There were twenty-six times, that Tom is aware of, that he should have been killed or at least severely wounded and one time when he actually did die. Tom was resuscitated ... and was able to watch and later recount the efforts to revive him"--P. [4] of cover.