A Time To Remember: A Tale of the Viet Nam Conflict - Softcover

Currey, Cecil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1418435198 ISBN 13: 9781418435196

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2004

Synopsis

Cecil Barr Currey, an acclaimed professor of military history and award-winning author of the novel, Innocence Dies (lstBooks Library, 2001), again turns his attention to the Vietnam conflict, continuing the story of Douglas MacArthur Andrews, a young man caught in the turbulence of the 1960s. An ROTC lieutenant, he serves as a platoon leader in Vietnam. He becomes friends with Platoon Sergeant Jan Szigmond; they struggle to serve with honor while simultaneously becoming ever more cynical, Szigmond is wounded and left for dead in the Viet Cong-infested jungle by members of his platoon. Later Andrews is supposedly killed in a VC Ambush.A Time to Remember continues their story. Neither Andrews nor Szigmond died. Currey tells how they were wounded, captured by the enemy and thrown into a northern prison to face daily terror and torture. Finally escaping, for months the two men make their way south toward safety. Currey brilliantly recounts their suffering, courage, and steadfast determination once again to pick up the thread of their lives. Returning, Andrews faces a court-martial for leading an alleged massacre of Vietnamese civilians. A Time to Remember tells the poignant story of his trial and its aftermath.

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About the Author:

Acclaimed by reviewers here and abroad, award-winning author and well-known university professor of military history Cecil Barr Currey, understands the land, people, and history of Vietnam. Four of his twenty-some nonfiction books have dealt with that nation. His biography of Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, Victory at any Cost, was nominated for a Pulitzer and received the 1997 book award from the prestigious Association of Third World Studies. A selection of the History Book Club, it was simultaneously published in England and was translated into Chinese, French, and Portuguese. His historical writings have brought him international recognition and he is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. This is his second novel focusing on the American conflict there. The first was Innocence Dies (1stBooks Library, 2001). A Time to Remember is its sequel, picking up the action from the last pages of the former book and carrying it to a stirring conclusion.Currey lives with his wife Laura in south Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1418435198
• ISBN 13: 9781418435196
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220