The author chronicles 22 individual stories of men who fought and served during the Vietnam War. The stories of these courageous men are very graphically detailed, including the first large scale test of our fighting men at the battle of Ira Drang. The lives of these men, including the stories of men who were awarded the Medal of Honor, can be summed up in a quote from the book; “Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank, but in simple obedience to duty, as they understood it”.

These are stories of men of uncommon valor. Well told.

Reviewed by Jim Stewart
Military Writers Society of America

Author Biography

Donald J. Farinacci

Donald J. Farinacci is a Vietnam-era veteran of the United States Army. He served overseas from 1966 to 1969. He is a practicing attorney by profession with a deep interest in veterans' affairs, which he has been able to pursue as a member of the Military Law Committee of the Nassau County, New York Bar Association and as a long-time volunteer with the national Veterans Administration hospitals volunteer program. It was mainly his work as a veteran's proponent which led him to conclude that there was a great disparity between the way Vietnam veterans were treated upon their return from war and the way veterans of other wars were treated. This inequity provided the main inspiration for Last Full Measure of Devotion.

Mr. Farinacci has been published as a legal author in many well-known business and law publications, including The New York Law Journal, The Nassau Lawyer, Long Island Business News and various legal course books of the National Business Institute.

Last Full Measure of Devotion is the author’s second full-length work of non-fiction. His first published work was the well-received When One Stood Alone -- John J. Sirica’s Battle Against the Watergate Conspiracy, published in 2005. In 2006, When One Stood Alone was excerpted in Ambassador Magazine with a circulation of 30,000 subscribers.

Both of Mr. Farinacci’s full-length books have delved into the nature and manifestations of courage---moral courage in the Sirica biography and physical courage in Last Full Measure of Devotion. This is a theme with which Mr. Farinacci is deeply engaged as a former soldier and as a lawyer.