Everyone has a war story... even those who never fired a shot or left the relative security of the rear area. Somewhere in between the horrific daily combat missions of the foot soldier and the sheltered environment of rear area goof-offs were thousands of men and women who lived in the gray zone, that place where the author finds himself. Their lives were often in danger, but they weren't in daily contact with the VC or North Vietnamese Army. What they were in contact with was other Americans and locals who shared the untold experience of a war that is slowly being forgotten.
Forty years after Vietnam, many people, except for those who were there, no longer even remember what it was like. The images that remain are mostly from TV news coverage and films that portray the horror and frustration experienced by those who were in nearly constant combat.
A collection of fictional narratives inspired by the Viet Nam Era experience, Diary of the Phantom Lieutenant tells about the less glamorous and uninspiring aspects of being a junior officer in a combat zone during one of our nation’s most turbulent periods.
The author paints a picture of Americans thrown unwittingly, and in some cases unwillingly, together into Vietnam. The stories are sometimes humorous and always interesting. Steve Jeffreys laces his work with commentary and footnote details of how the U.S. Army actually operated in those years. Readers will come away with a different view of the war than the one they saw on TV or read about 10,000 miles away.
 
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