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| AUTHOR: | Matthew Brennan |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Presidio Press |
| ISBN: | 0891412360 |
| TYPE: | Brennan, Matthew |
| MEDIA: | Unknown Binding |
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A benchmark The quintessential combat memoir of the Vietnam War. Brennan's book is well written and he succeeds in creating gripping and vivid descriptions of combat from a soldier's perspective. This superb narrative conveys the fear and horror of combat along with shared humor and love felt among comrades. Brennan's honesty prevents him from romanticizing either his fellow soldiers, or the Vietnamese they are ever wary of, but he is able to humanize those trapped in a dehumanizing crucible. His multiple tours in Vietnam bridge the time before and after the 1968 Tet offensive, which became a turning point in the War. Upon receiving a commission and returning to Vietnam he found that mostly unmotivated and apathetic draftees gradually replaced the highly motivated professional soldiers he served with in his first tour, mirroring the larger erosion of the American military in Vietnam. His weary realization that the War will be lost and that all the sacrifices he witnessed will be squandered is both sobering and tragic. Along with Goodbye Darkness, this is a classic American war memoir.
One Of The Best Two...
I read this book at least once every year. My primary field of study is the history of the 1st and 2nd Indochina Wars, and I have read many, many books about those conflicts. "Brennan's War" is one of the two best (the other is Jim Morris' "War Story"- incidentally, I would make it a three way tie with David Hackworth's "About Face", but the latter covers a much greater period of time, and therefore it is not an apt comparison.). Without recourse to cliches like "gripping narrative" etc., let me just say that if you want to understand what it was like to serve as a combat infantryman in Viet Nam, this is about as close as any of us who were not there are going to get...
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Gripping Story
I have read this book at least 20 times. The story never fails to amaze me.