Postwar America, 1945-1970 Book

By far, ironically, one of the most cruel, violent and beautiful books I have read in a long time. The book is a story of soldiers fighting in the way and the things they saw, dealt with and the trauma they had to "carry" throughout the rest of their life. The simply things from the description of his friend stepping on a landmine to the cruel murder of the water buffalo made this story in it's own category. So well written you have to turn away from the story at times the way you do to not see the gore in a film. One of the best pulpy novels on the cruelty of war not on the soil and citiizens its faught but on the soldiers fighting it for us.