Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.5
Points
20.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
114512
Points per Word
0.000175
Page Count
356
Points per Page
0.05618
Description
In 1965, Marine Lieutenant Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, he returned home, physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone.