Platoon is a story of a beleaguered Army platoon of soldiers that received "fresh meat" for the jungle grinder and is told through the eyes of one of the replacements. This story takes a lot of what happened over there with our young men fighting a war that, it seemed, nobody wanted. A lot of the issues with this platoon was in my opinion a conglomeration of the stories that have come out of "Nam," be the details were widespread throughout the soldiers or not the author took the liberty to ensure that these men provided a channeling of the stories through them. Good read and worth the time devoted to see how it was during that conflict, maybe not all at once as told in the story.

Platoon is a story of a beleaguered Army platoon of soldiers that received "fresh meat" for the jungle grinder and is told through the eyes of one of the replacements. This story takes a lot of what happened over there with our young men fighting a war that, it seemed, nobody wanted. A lot of the issues with this platoon was in my opinion a conglomeration of the stories that have come out of "Nam," be the details were widespread throughout the soldiers or not the author took the liberty to ensure that these men provided a channeling of the stories through them. Good read and worth the time devoted to see how it was during that conflict, maybe not all at once as told in the story. ( )

Une jungle putride et bourbeuse, des cadavres abandonnés et, terré là, le petit poste U.S. de Cu Chi, repaire d'un peloton de la compagnie Bravo.
Un peloton ? Plutôt un ramassis de zombies, de drogués : des Noirs et des Blancs, venus des ghettos ou des fermes, les uns braves, les autres lâches, tous usés par des mois de guérilla. Et les 'encadrant', des brutes de sous-off et un lieutenant fou. C'est là qu'est projeté Chris, étudiant de vingt ans, engagé volontaire. Garçon de bonne volonté, il avait imaginé une guerre 'propre', loyale; il avait rêvé camaraderie et solidarité. Il va découvrir la réalité, mais que va faire de lui pareille réalité ? ( )