Allen Tiffany

Allen Tiffany is a retired United States Army infantry officer who brings military training and a graduate education in creative writing to historical fiction. Youth In Asia is a 2015 novella set in Vietnam's Central Highlands shortly before the 1968 Tet Offensive. Five members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade become separated from their platoon near the Cambodian border after fighting around Dak To. Their effort to survive places friendship, discipline, fear, and betrayal inside the immediate confusion of a jungle patrol. Tiffany frames the story through a veteran's recollection, keeping the focus on young soldiers rather than attempting a comprehensive political history of the conflict. The author graduated from Airborne and Ranger schools and the Command and General Staff College, experience that informs the book's attention to small-unit decisions and field conditions. The novella presents a compact Vietnam War narrative about men forced to depend on one another while events move toward the Tet Offensive, with survival carrying memories that continue long after the patrol ends.