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Patrol follows an American soldier who, suddenly thrust into combat, must confront the claustrophobic dangers of Vietnam's dense forests. Throughout the story, he faces the psychological and physical hardships that define wartime experience for infantrymen.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: War & Military Fiction/War Stories
Authors: Walter Dean Myers
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