Lift your head and hold it high! Mighty Mike is passing by!" So sang the 250 diverse soldiers of M Company ("Mighty Mike") as they went marching to Vietnam. Their right feet hitting the snow simultaneously, they sang, "Am I right or wrong?" They had their answer three weeks later.
"Great reportage, " "The New York Times, "
"Great literature, " "The Dallas Morning News, "
"A superb book, " "The Nation, "
"One must go back to Orwell for appropriate comparisons, " "The Washington Post, "
"Sack achieves the quality of William March's "Company K" in World War I, of James Jones' "From Here to Eternity" in World War II, " "The Los Angeles Times, "
"Absolutely the best book to come out of Vietnam, " "The Cleveland Press, " "M" has been nominated by the NYU Department of Journalism as one of the top journalistic works of the twentieth century.