HUGHES : You can see a lot standing under a flare in the Republic of Vietnam (fülszöveg)
Of all the books to come out of Vietnam, this is bound to be one of the most permanent, for it tells of the war there in human terms, not merely political. It is, in Larry Hughes's own words, "the common man's look at the war."
After "twenty-one years of taking life for granted," Larry Hughes was drafted and sent to Vietnam as an Army information specialist. This position allowed him more flexibility than have most G.I.'s, and he took advantage of it, traveling extensively (by jeep, convoy, and helicopter, throughout the Central Highlands), spending a gond deal of time with Vietnamese, and most of all simply observing – men in combat, men relaxing, men becoming heroes (usually through generosity, not fighting), men making fools of themselves.
And Larry Hughes never stopped questioning, for he felt – and continued to feel once he returned home – that nobody, including the men in Vietnam, could understand this war, especially the part being played in it by the hundreds of thousands of Americans whose war, through no decision of their own, it seemed to become, almost exclusively.
Larry Hughes remained in Vietnam for a bit more than a year, and from his experiences there he has written this unique book, which is in part a real-life Catch-22, in part an archetypal story of a young American wrenched from his prosperous homeland, and in all respects one man's honest and controversial attempt to understand through an account of his daily life just what he was doing at war in Vietnam.
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