Vietnam-Perkasie
A Combat Marine Memoir
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4.1 • 18 Ratings
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Touching. Harrowing. True
The sort of immediacy and unvarnished account that can only be written by a person reliving each moment as they write. Touching. Harrowing. True. Only wish it had the happy ending that me and the author were hoping for. It tells me the things that I can never ask my Vietnam Vet friends. The things that keep inside them forever. The things they can share with each other in a word or a glance. But can never share with anyone else who has not been there.