Run Between the Raindrops: Author's Preferred Edition

The blood-drenched Navy Corpsman had it right as he labored to keep yet another Marine alive on the mean street of Hue City: Getting out of Hue alive is like trying to run between raindrops without getting wet. Nearly half a century has passed since Marine veteran Dale Dye fought in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive. That brutal experience prompted him to write a searing, critically acclaimed novel about the surreal experiences of the battle to wrest control of Vietnam s ancient Imperial capital from regiments of fanatical North Vietnamese Army soldiers. Now he s taken a long second look at that fight and revised his original work into an even more powerful narrative of one of the Vietnam War s most brutal battles. The story is told through the eyes of a veteran Marine Corps Combat Correspondent with the observational skills and off-beat attitude to relate what he sees from the close-quarter, house-to-house meat-grinder of the southside to the epic assault on the enemy-infested walls of the city s medieval Citadel in a voice that reflects the Code of the Grunt: Just do it or die trying. There it is. powerful novel about Marine grunts in Nam .nitty-gritty feel for life and death at the foxhole level Salute Run Between the Raindrops will live on as one man s epitaph to a generation because it captures so well the pathos, the very personal struggles and conflicts that characterized the lives of thousands of people who left The World to fight a war Soldier of Fortune