Short-timers. Gustav Hasford. 1987.

Vietnam, 1968. A nightmarish landscape blackened by napalm and littered with once-human debris. Where victories are measured in mountains of corpses and ordinary men are transformed into obsessive executioners.

This is the brutally honest story of Cpl. Joker and his battle-hardened company, survivors of months of unimaginable horror-the crazy-tough and the phony-brave, religiously counting the days until their release from the green prison of combat. But they all know one unspoken truth-that even though they're on their way out, their last few hours in Nam could become their last hours on earth.