About this Book

ibooks has formed a publishing partnership with Presidio Press, one of the leading military history book publishers to produce a line of mass market editions based on Presidio Press titles originally released in hardcover and trade paperback. Together with its publishing partnership with Primedia, the leading military history magazine publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, America's Civil War, Civil War Times Illustrated, Aviation History, Military History, World War II, and Vietnam, ibooks is creating the strongest trade-oriented military history publishing brand in the industry. Vietnam has been called the company commander's war-these were the young officers who ran the war on a day-to-day basis, making life and death decisions in the jungles, rice paddies, and villages. Estep quickly learned what it meant to be a leader of men: to comfort an 18-year-old who had killed for the first time; to give confidence to an intimidated platoon leader; to revitalize the morale of a hard-luck company; to gain the trust of his crusty first sergeant' and, most of all, to confront and conquer his own fears. Company Commander-Vietnam is an honest and compelling story of