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Xin Loi, Viet Nam: Thirty-one Months of War - A Soldier's Memoir | 
 enlarge | Author: Al Sever
Publisher: Presidio Press
Category: Book
List Price: £4.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 61398
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: New title
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0891418563
Dewey Decimal Number: 959
EAN: 9780891418566
ASIN: 0891418563
Publication Date: April 15, 2005
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A good read February 9, 2008
D. Hart
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book on the spur of the moment with some other books from Amazon. I chose it really because it was cheap to buy - so not much of a risk - and because I had read some other books about the Viet Nam helicopter conflict, such as `Chickenhawk' that were interesting & good to read, and I hoped this would be too.
I wasn't disappointed. Al SEVER's style is certainly easy to read and I soon found it difficult to put down.
He served for an extensive period on combat helicopters, mostly gunships and recounts his time in Viet Nam with a factual and unassuming style with certain parts indicating he is probably a thoughtful man as well as a good soldier.
Obviously keen to get involved in combat and stay there, he also refers to the loss of hearts and minds of the locals the great American war-machine tended to steam roller over, with the ultimate result that despite overwhelming technology and firepower they lost out to a simpler yet more determined foe. Perhaps someone should have read his book before the invasion of Iraq without an apparent follow-up plan for what to do after Saddam was kicked out.
If you like easy to read autobiographical accounts of being an operational soldier in a conflict, I think you will like this book. I did.
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