Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
52470
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
209
Points per Page
0.038278
Description
The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.