ANDERSON : Vietnam : The other war (ajánló)
GOOD MORNING, DA NANG...
You could escape the relentless heat in the air-conditioned beer joints, but after a while the strippers didn't cut it anymore. You could safely watch a battle raging outside Da Nang, but when it was over you had the mind-numbing monotony to fight – unless the VC launched a sapper attack...
Here, from the acclaimed author of The Grunts, is the fascinating, irreverent account of what life was like behind the front lines of Vietnam. Here are the eager young warriors frustrated by rear-duty boredom, crazed lifers clinging to their dignity, and a whole cast of characters living in a world of black marketeers, North Vietnamese prisoners, mortar attacks, deserters, prostitutes, and the strange slum land the Gls called Dogpatch. From the soldiers' elaborately decorated hootches to an R & R visit to Singapore, from comedy to sudden tragedy, this is a tour of backstage Vietnam – as it has rarely been seen before.
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