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Recounts the savage and bitter experiences of a youthful live company of the 101st Airborne deployed in the jungle highlands of Vietnam
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When Corporal Amaro meets First Sgt. Henry Fluett of C Company, 101st Airborne, he knows he is in trouble. Amaro is a wise guy from Brooklyn, and Fluett is a hard-nosed "lifer" of the old school. This novel about combat in Vietnam should appeal to enlisted men who served in the Army during the '60s and early '70s. For one thing, the language is spot-on; two decades later, it's downright spooky to read about deuce-and-a-halfs, dust offs, hats-up and steel pots. More importantly, Ferrandino depicts both the official war between the Americans and ARVN and NVA/VC, and the unofficial conflict between the single-hitch enlisted men and the "lifer" cadre of career commissioned and noncommissioned officerswho all too often tried to disguise their incompetence with John Wayne rhetoric and "discipline" that amounted to hazing the troops. Ferrandino's version of the Vietnam War is a usefully astringent corrective to the current romantic Rambo cult. His narrative has the crude power of an attempt to exorcize a real-life nightmare.
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Amaro is a young soldier on the line in Vietnam. His days and nights are filled with battle, disease, dope, destruction, death, and learning to survive. Individuals drift in and out of his life but most are only names, and those who are more die. While the assaults of enemy and nature are relentless, those of certain higher-ups in the chain of command are even more agonizing to Amaro. Part of his survival depends on coping with at least one of these men. Tough, sad, frustrating, this first novel by a former Vietnam infantryman is another grim view of a terrible ordeal. Robert H. Donahugh, P.L. of Youngstown and Mahoning Cty. , Ohio
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Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Stated. 196 Pages. Blue boards with dark blue quarter spine. The author is an infantryman who served with the 101st Airborne. He served in Central America and Vietnam. He was one of the trio whose design concept won the competition for New York City's Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This story is a work of fiction. --- VC can be cured reads the graffiti on their helmets. They are eighteen and nineteen, paratroopers, young men anxious not to miss out on their generation's war, members of a line company of the 101st Airborne deployed in the jungle highlands. Conroy, back from eight luxurious months of AWOL in Saigon. Vernon, the machine gunner on his second tour. Spector, the freckle-faced medic. Johnny Vanilla, Tigerbaum, Las Vegas, Amaro. Raised on movie images of Richard Conte walking the hard baked earth of Italy and G.l.s storming Jap infested beaches, their idea of war was adventurous, full of loyalty and sacrifice. Seconds into a hot landing lone, with the helicopter tipping them out, forcibly jettisoning them from tree top level into enemy fire, they know otherwise. Snipers work at 1000 meters, a third of a second from their targets. The rifles spit 10 rounds a secOnd. Firefights are qUick. Ambushes quicker. Medics wear no white armbands, no red crosses. They carry weapons, like everyone. Ambulances fly, machine guns protuding. And even bodies are booby trapped. There is no private peace to be made with it. What it is is a ;private war: every dog soldier's personal battle to stay alive. Seller Inventory # 11070
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