Brothers in Arms
A Journey from War to Peace
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- $24.99
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Publisher Description
Reviews of the Knopf edition:
“A wonderful book—fresh and intelligent. Broyles’s eye for Vietnam, then and now, is unerring.” —Peter Jennings
“[A] superbly written, often moving story of Broyles’ journey back to the killing ground in Vietnam where he once served as a Marine lieutenant. A cool, clear meditation that stings the heart.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A first-rate piece of work, infused with an ideal American common decency and common sense.” —Kurt Vonnegut
“Exceptional and memorable.” —Gay Talese
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"I went back to find a man I never knewmy enemy. I went back to find pieces of myself I had left there, and to try to put the war behind me.'' Broyles, former Newsweek editor, spent four weeks in Vietnam in 1984 visiting sites familiar from his days as a combat Marine, talking with people and asking probing and provocative questions. He interviewed mountain tribesmen, fishermen, Amerasian children, Communist Party officials, academics, and former members of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. In his own reminiscences from the war, Broyles conveys the moral ambiguities in a fresh and moving way, and in his narrative of the 1984 visit he conveys the pathetic state of postwar Vietnam. Although he felt ``a certain satisfying irony at my old enemy being hoist with its own petard,'' he left Vietnam ``with a sympathy for my old enemies I had not had before.'' Few books capture the essence of the Vietnam War and its aftermath so vividly as this one. Highly recommended. First serial to Esquire.
