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Title: Company of Heroes

Subtitle: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Companys War in Vietnam

Author: Eric Poole

Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

In his two decades as a reporter, author Eric Poole racked up more than 30 regional and national awards while interviewing presidents and other luminaries. Here Poole recounts the experiences of a band of US soldiers in Vietnam, including the heroics of Leslie Sabo, Jr., who died saving his comrades and finally received his Medal of Honor some 42 years after his act of breathtaking courage.

Members Reviews:

The story of America told through courage and sacrifice

This is a book about the best America had to offer during the Vietnam War. While some were wearing beads, many more answered their countryâs call and wore dog tags instead. Some of those, a few, really about a third, went to Vietnam and fought. Leslie Sabo was one of those and this is the story of how he won the Medal of Honor and was promptly forgotten.

For what ever reason, Leslie Saboâs Medal of Honor paperwork was lost and then forgotten by the Army, but not by his brothers in arms. They remembered, and they found a way to get Leslieâs family the medal he had earned at the cost of his life. This is that story well told by Eric Poole.

We were in the same unit in different years so I never met Leslie Sabo. I left Vietnam two years before he arrived. However, I recognize him. Leslie Sabo was a grunt, an infantryman at home in that dangerous place called battle. It is hard for the protected to understand, but only after you make you peace with idea that you could be killed can you really be an infantryman. Leslie had that peace and Poole conveys that truth very well.

The book is a photograph in time. It is about Leslie Sabo, about some of the men that served with him, and most of all about a time in America that is long gone now. It is well written, well researched and well worth the time to read.

Having said that, the book could have used one more trip to the editor. There are a few jarring mistakes, calling an M-60 machine gun a 60 caliber, or an M-16 rifle an M-1. However, these are really typos, the substance of the book is strong. I recommend it.

Good read.

On the plus side this is a well written true account of ordinary men doing extraordinary things in combat as our men and women have done since we have been a country. While this is a book about one particular hero it also tells the stories of several young men from small towns all across America that come together to form an effective fighting force. If you want to know how ground units operated in Vietnam read this book.

Cons: The author makes several technical mistakes and obviously never served himself. The M-60 machine gun and the guns on the Huey helicopters were 7.62 which is .30 caliber. He repeatedly refers to the M-60 as .60 caliber and 60mm. He states that JFK and LBJ couldn't pull out of Vietnam due to political pressure. Although it was denied for decades by everybody involved a copy of the orders issued by JFK shortly before his death surfaced calling for troop withdrawals to begin by Christmas '63 and be completed during '64. LBJ countermanded those orders as his first act as president. The NVA/Viet Cong always attacked during Tet, just not to the extent they did in '68.