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Shrapnel Wounds is the combat memoir of Lieutenant Tom Crowley, an enthusiastic and highly trained U.S. Army enlistee and Officer Candidate School grad who enters combat in Vietnam in mid-1966. Highly regarded by his infantry platoon and strongly encouraged by his superiors to become a professional soldier, Crowley almost inadvertently examines the system by which career officers are shepherded through to higher and higher rank-and increasingly rejects that system over the course of his one-year combat tour.

Produktbeschreibung
Shrapnel Wounds is the combat memoir of Lieutenant Tom Crowley, an enthusiastic and highly trained U.S. Army enlistee and Officer Candidate School grad who enters combat in Vietnam in mid-1966. Highly regarded by his infantry platoon and strongly encouraged by his superiors to become a professional soldier, Crowley almost inadvertently examines the system by which career officers are shepherded through to higher and higher rank-and increasingly rejects that system over the course of his one-year combat tour.
Autorenporträt
Tom Crowley served in Vietnam as a rifle platoon leader with the 25th Infantry Division, was wounded in action, and received awards for heroism. He battled with PTSD during his thirty-year corporate career in Asia and subsequently volunteered and spent fourteen years working with the Mercy Centre, a street kid's charity in Bangkok, Thailand. He is a member of the Military Writer's Society of America (MWSA), the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), and the International Thriller Writers (ITW). His previous works include the non-fiction Bangkok Pool Blues and Shrapnel Wounds, and action/adventure fiction set in Thailand: Viper's Tail, Murder in the Slaughterhouse, which won a bronze award from MWSA, and Bangkok Gamble.