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Loading... Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoirby W. D. Ehrhart
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Ehrhart's account of his Vietnam experience is well written and the reader gets a good sense of what it was like to be in country. He also communicates well the conflicted feelings and emotions of a returning vet aware, even before he has completed his tour, that his service has had little effect and is not understood/appreciated by his countrymen or likely even the South Vietnamese. I did feel the book ended abruptly. ( ) no reviews | add a review
In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.D. Ehrhart: "As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature." This autobiographical account of the war, the author's first extended prose work, demonstrates Ehrhart's abilities as a writer of prose as well. Vietnam?Perkasie is grim, comical, disturbing, and accurate. The presentation is novelistic?truly, a "page-turner"?but the events are all real, the atmosphere intensely evocative. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)959.704History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia Vietnam 1949-LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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