Vietnam

GENERAL LOVED BY HIS TROOPS, BUT NOT HIS BOSSES

Jim Willbanks’ superbly written, extensively researched book on Lt. Gen. James F. “Holly” Hollingsworth—known by his radio call sign “Danger Seven-Niner”—shows readers why Holly is one of only three Texas A&M heroes with statues on the university’s College Station campus. The other two are Texas legends and A&M presidents: Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross (a Texas Ranger, Confederate general and governor) and James Earl Rudder (famed World War II commander of Rudder’s Rangers, one of the

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