Di Di Mau: Tigers, Rock Apes, the Jungle and War
In 1969, Darren Walton, at the tender age of nineteen, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, trading life in idyllic Marin County in California for the chaos of a raging jungle war in Southeast Asia. In no time, he got pressed into service as a member of a Marine reconnaissance unit, operating out of Camp Reasoner, located on a hill near Da Nang, Vietnam. Di Di Mau is my collaboration with Darren to share his unabashed personal account of warfare, survival, and brotherhood—and the enduring reflections that followed. It is unlike any book about the Vietnam War.
“A revealing, sometimes gut-wrenching war memoir that examines virtually every aspect of his tour of duty.”
