C Trick: Sort of a Memoir - Hardcover

Don Cooper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967017610 ISBN 13: 9780967017617

Publisher: Pale Bone, 2000

Synopsis

Before Vietnam was Berlin. For a generation that came of age in the 1960s, the Cold War was an unrelenting presence. More than fifty years ago, the Cold War began in Berlin with the Berlin Airlift. In 1961, the Berlin Wall was built, splitting the city into communist East and capitalist West. Even after the shooting stopped in Vietnam, Berlin continued to be the focus of the East-West conflict until the Wall finally came down in 1989. In "C Trick: Sort of a Memoir," author Don Cooper offers insight into the lives of the Vietnam-era soldiers who didn't go to Southeast Asia. Unlike their counterparts in the Vietnam jungles, members of C Trick didn't carry rifles; their weapons were radio receivers and tape recorders. No shots were fired in their war, but it was fought 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year in and year out. The book is an affectionate and humorous recollection about the people of C Trick, how they looked at the world and their place in it. The book examines the relationships of a group of young men who, for just a short time, shared their lives. "C Trick: Sort of a Memoir" is irreverent and bawdy, and captures the spirit of a turbulent time.

About this title

From the Publisher

"C Trick: Sort of a memoir carries on an old American tradition. About World War II novels, Kurt Vonnegut wrote: "And let it here be noted that the best-known members of my literary generation, if they wrote about the war, almost unanimously despised officers and made heroes of sketchily educated, aggressively unaristocratic enlisted men." The same can be said for "C Trick."

From the Author

When I started writing "C Trick: Sort of a Memoir," I had planned to present the story in textbook style. But there were so many funny stories that I let the stories tell themselves, adopting the Western novelist Elmer Kelton's advice that "if it didn't happen this way, it should have."

Edition details

• Publisher: Pale Bone
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0967017610
• ISBN 13: 9780967017617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288