(London), Macgibbon & Kee, (1966). The first British edition of this early novel of combat in Vietnam, one which anticipates the many antiwar novels that emerged more than a decade later, after the war was lost. This novel, which "chronicles the swift, brutal education of a young American soldier in Vietnam," is one of the earliest novels to have an overwhelmingly antiwar message. Later such books were common, but at the time this was published, the message was politically unpopular and the U.S. publication of this book was relegated to a small publisher (Apocalypse in Los Angeles) which may have existed only to do this one book. Small owner label on front flyleaf; corners and edges bumped; very good in like dust jacket. [#028713] SOLD