"ORCHIDS IN THE MUD" is a saga of the 132d Infantry as a fighting regiment of the famed Americal Division in the South Pacific jungles during World War II. The book relates the story of civilian soldiers, prepared for war and commanded by the professionals. The Story is told "the way it was." Not about generals or admirals, but about the individual soldiers sweating and slugging it out in far away jungles against, at times, an unseen enemy.