For a short book, it doesn't even have much content in it and some of the charges in it (Kerry's use of military vehicles to go to Saigon for a "good time" for instance) are frankly pretty petty. O'Neil speaks as if he knew Kerry personally, yet never even met him until their appearances together on the Dick Cavett show. The same can be said for the other vets in this book, most of whom weren't even in the service at the same time as Kerry, just simply didn't like his postwar activities. Odd that this book has even become a big deal considering that Bush never even served in Viet Nam himself.For an unbiased, frank look at Kerry's service, read "Tour of Duty," or, better yet see "Going Upriver: the Long War of John Kerry," a documentary based on Kerry's Swift Boat service and his anti-Viet Nam activities afterwards. Neither are wholly flattering either, yet were at least created without any political bias.