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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;We Kill for Peace&quot;<br/>	<br/>If you were only to read one book of the Viet Nam War, watch one movie, or read one historical text of the 60s, make it &quot;Sympathy for the Devil&quot;, Kent Anderson's deeply disturbing, darkly moving epic of war and American culture of the late 60's. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31204932">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the best written book I've read about the Vietnam war.  It reads almost like fiction.  Great prose and great suspense.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Graphic and Gory but the one book you should read if you are interested in what really went down in Vietnam. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[That tag line is trite to say the least. Anderson's first book, and a total scorcher. This is, I guess, what it was really like, written by someone who was there (check the author photo in the back.) I paid 125 bux for this and it's worth every penny and then some. If you like Michael Herr's &quot;D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8723866">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[thsi is a great book!!!! i thouroughly enjoyed reading this book everytime i read it!!!! it must be that good if i have read it more than once!!!!!!!!!!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the ugliest most nihilistic war stories ever. Fantastic reading. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[an awesome dark story on Vietnam]]></body>
    
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