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Over two millennia ago, a peaceful, agrarian people known as the Degas settled and flourished along the coast and in the fertile valleys of southeast Indochina. Over time, however, more aggressive tribes moved into the region, driving the Dega people out of their ancestral home and up into what would become Vietnam`s Central Highlands. Hundreds of years later, when the French occupied and colonized the region, they came to call these tough yet gentle mountain people the Montagnards.

Soon after the French were driven from Vietnam in 1954, the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam in two, placing the Montagnards under the jurisdiction of the South Vietnamese government (SVN). The SVN, in turn, declared the Montagnard as ethnic minorities, enraging the tribes and providing Ho Chi Minh with an opportunity to exploit the Montagnard`s loyalty with promises of autonomy after reunification. By 1961, the SVN had lost most of what little support it had from the Montagnards. In an attempt to win them back, the SVN allowed U.S. CIA and Special Forces advisers into the region to befriend and train Montagnard local defense units and reconnaissance teams. It is here where HONOR AND SACRIFICE begins...

Anthony J. Blondell was part of that failed mission. He fought, killed, and lied his way out of one impossible situation after another. And he survived to tell this true story of trust and betrayal, romance and danger, set amidst the jungles and rice patties of Vietnam.