Chickenhawk: Back in the World Again - Hardcover

Mason, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670215821 ISBN 13: 9780670215829

Publisher: Viking, 1983

Synopsis

A former Army helicopter pilot describes his experiences during a year's tour in Vietnam, offering an extraordinary portrait of the terror, banality, stupidity, and waste of war

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Review:

["Chickenhawk"]s vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stun readers. ("Time") Masons gripping memoir ... proves again that reality is more interesting, and often more terrifying, than fiction. ("Los Angeles Times") Very simply the best book so far out of Vietnam. ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch")

["Chickenhawk"]as vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stun readers. ("Time") Masonas gripping memoir ... proves again that reality is more interesting, and often more terrifying, than fiction. ("Los Angeles Times") Very simply the best book so far out of Vietnam. ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch")

["Chickenhawk"] s vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stun readers. ("Time") Mason s gripping memoir ... proves again that reality is more interesting, and often more terrifying, than fiction. ("Los Angeles Times") Very simply the best book so far out of Vietnam. ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch")

["Chickenhawk"]'s vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stun readers. ("Time") Mason's gripping memoir ... proves again that reality is more interesting, and often more terrifying, than fiction. ("Los Angeles Times") Very simply the best book so far out of Vietnam. ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch")

"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: Viking
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0670215821
• ISBN 13: 9780670215829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416