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Novels About Guerrilla Warfare: Vietnam War Novels, Fallen Angels, Brotherhood of War, the Turner Diaries, in the Lake of the Wood
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-06-14.
ISBN 9781158212668
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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Vietnam War Novels, Fallen Angels, Brotherhood of War, the Turner Diaries, in the Lake of the Woods, First Blood, the Short-Timers, the Phantom Blooper, Going After Cacciato, Bao Ninh, the Clansman, a Tract of Time, Out of the Fire, Platoon Leader, a Nghu Night Falls, There I Was: the War of Corporal Henry J Morris, Usmc, Charlie Don't Live Here Anymore, a Rock and a Hard Place, Main Force Assault, Fields of Fire, the Barracks Thief, Meditations in Green, the Squad. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Fallen Angels won the 1989 Coretta Scott King Award. Published in 1988, Fallen Angels is listed as number 24 in the American Library Association's list of 100 most frequently challenged books of 19902000 due to its use of profanity and mature themes involving war. Richie Perry - The narrator and protagonist. Richie is a seventeen-year-old high school graduate from Harlem. Though he is smart and ambitious, his alcoholic single mother cannot afford to send him to college, so he joins the army to escape an uncertain future. Richie is sent to Vietnam and, during his months there, suffers numerous harrowing combat experiences and tries to grapple with the meaning of war, heroism, and good and evil. Kenny Perry - Richies younger brother. Kenny depends on his older brother, who acts as a father figure to him and enlists in Vietnam in part to help support him. Yet Richie seems to need Kenny just as much as Kenny needs him. Kennys dependence Harold Peewee Gates - Richies closest friend in Vietnam. Peewee copes with the fear and uncertainty of the war with comical bravado, though he occasionally allows his true emotions to peek through the bluster. Lobel - A member of Richies squad. Jewish, Lobel is the target of prejudice nearly as frequently as the black soldie...http://booksllc.net/?l=en
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