Chickenhawk - Softcover

Mason, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143035711 ISBN 13: 9780143035718

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2005

Synopsis

A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War

More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason's astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death--the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger.

"Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Review:

"Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"[Chickenhawk]'s vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stune readers." -Time

"Mason's gripping memoir . . . proves again that reality is more interesting, and often more terrifying, than fiction." -Los Angeles Times

"More than any other writer, Mason has been able to capture the feeling of what it was like to be there." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A hypnotic narrative." -The New York Times

"Better than any movie about the war." -Boston Herald

Book Description:

Robert Mason's devastating bird's eye-view of the Vietnam war in all its horror

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143035711
• ISBN 13: 9780143035718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 492