Man of the River: Memoir of a Brown Water Sailor in Vietnam, 1968-1969

The Rivers War as seen by SMC Jimmy R. Bryant USN from the deck of a PBR -- River Patrol Boat, Vietnam 1968-69

This book, Man of the River is about Riverine Warfare in Vietnam and gives an up close account of what the well armed, small thirty one feet long fiberglass boats that worked in pairs were involved in while fighting the Vietcong and North Vietnamese army. This is a non-fiction book supported by actual patrol action reports, charts of the rivers and numerous photos of what these patrols faced daily and nightly on the dangerous rivers of that country.