C. Daniel Manrique

A Soldier of the Second Civil War C. Daniel Manrique

"If Platoon grabbed yourattention, A Soldier of the Second CivilWar will grab you by the throat. It will also break your heart."-¿ J. D. Wells, author of Ultimate Justice: The Final PenaltyIn August 1968 Daniel Cerrano was likely the most reluctant and embittered of the82,000 plus draft-age young men ordered to report for induction into the UnitedStates Army. By March 1970 he had become a highly decorated combat veteran witha secret so terrible he would have to take it to his grave. ASoldier of the Second Civil War is his story: a shocking,never-before-published account of the most shameful slice of the Vietnam Warand of the most heinous act of treason in the annals of American militaryhistory. A Soldier of the Second Civil Waris an intensely human drama that lays bare the soul of a man and a nation incrisis. It is a tale of inner turmoil and strife, of battered conscience andsensibilities, of manipulation and deceit, of treachery and treason, ofbetrayal and corruption in high places. It is also the gut-wrenching,frighteningly realistic account of one young man's honor, courage and sacrificein the most dishonorable of circumstances.