"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso

Going to B -- Of mountains and machines -- The summer of love -- Socks on an octopus -- "Saddle up, cowboys!" -- Grunt -- Orphans of creation -- "This is not a practice" -- "Tonight you die, Marine" -- Scavengers -- The smoky landscape -- Benefit of the doubt -- Untangling the tangle -- "Bring our daddy home" -- The third rail -- The things they carried back -- A Vietnamese in disguise -- Policing the brass -- Milk that glowed in the dark -- The end of our exploring -- The road to Damascus -- Great loss and confusion -- Angry ghosts -- The worst thing, the best thing -- The painter, the sprinter, and the monk -- Unfinished business -- Turning the Ho Chi Minh Trail brown -- The pocket of fire -- The end of the trail -- Epilogue : Hill 674

"The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"--