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Al Goehring
Mar 03, 2019 rated it really liked it
I know the “stupidity and madness of war” has been done before. It’s just nice to see someone get it so right.

I would say, I did get a little tired of the endless scenes of CIA guys having late cocktail lunches, and the endless scenes of enlisted men behaving badly on leave. Johnson mostly wrote shorter books, so I think he wasn’t aware he was running some stuff into the ground.
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