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No war movie could ever have prepared me for this, despite my ignorance for some American military terms, total inability to place places on a map, but most of all the complete lack of information about a war about which everyone seems to know everything but me.
Nessun film di guerra avrebbe mai potuto prepararmi a questo, nonostante la mia ignoranza per alcuni termini militari americani, la totale incapacitá di posizionare i luoghi su una cartina, ma soprattutto la completa assenza di informazi ...more
Nessun film di guerra avrebbe mai potuto prepararmi a questo, nonostante la mia ignoranza per alcuni termini militari americani, la totale incapacitá di posizionare i luoghi su una cartina, ma soprattutto la completa assenza di informazi ...more
I don't know how I managed not to hear about this book sooner. It's not as though it isn't famous, but it had never caught my attention until it was picked as a group read for Reading With Style. I loved the writing style here. This was honest reporting and war journalism of a kind that I haven't read much before. Like The Things They Carried, the book describes real experiences in heartbreaking detail. Unlike that book, the author here relays his own story of the effect that being in Vietnam ha
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