Book Review: We Had to Get Out of That Place: A Memoir of Redemption and Betrayal in Vietnam

Military History |

 
Author: Steven Grzesik
 
| Reviewed by Dr. Wylie W. Johnson, chaplain, US Army War College Class of 2010
 
Dr. Wylie W. Johnson reviews Vietnam War veteran Steven Grzesik’s memoir that, as Johnson explains, shows the effects of “the Army’s institutional policies” and how “[u]nit cohesiveness begins with senior leadership.” Grzesik’s personal experiences and the “isolation, abuse, and sacrifice of individual replacements” (which Johnson identifies as important themes in the book) provide a valuable perspective on “the imperative of caring for soldiers.”
 

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Keywords: infantry, rangers, Vietnam War, individual replacements, unit cohesion