Secondhand, G Cond.
This is one of the rare autobiographies that is both entertaining to read, and provides historical information that can rarely be found outside of such an autobiography. Barry Peterson has managed to capture his experiences that perhaps only a handful of people can claim similar. He has done so in a wonderful style in a topic that frankly, needs more books written about it. The opening chapter sets the tone and draws you in, with a bit of a twist to segway into the career of this Australian officer that took him from the Malaysian Emergency against the brutal ethnic Chinese Communist terror groups there, to essentially a tribal leader of the Montagnards in Dar Lac province attached to the American CIA. His candid apprasal comes across as honest, especially to those who have served in the military and faced the same frustrating beurocracy, petty jealous rivalry, and upper command incomprehension of the situation on the ground.