Time-Line Vietnam: The Tiger That Ate the Firebase

Bows, Ray

ISBN 10: 0929973038 / ISBN 13: 9780929973036

Published by Bows & Company, 2004

About this Item

First edition stated 2004, first printing. Signed by Author on ffep, long inscription to named person dated 3 July 2005. Published by Bows & Company. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and clean book, sharp corners, no edgewear, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ new, no edgewear, price not clipped. 8vo, 160 pages, illustrated with photographs.

Seller Inventory # 014825

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time-Line Vietnam: The Tiger That Ate the Firebase
• Publisher: Bows & Company
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0929973038
• ISBN 13: 9780929973036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

TIME-LINE VIETNAM- The Tiger That Ate The Firebase is the true story of fourteen months in the life of a young US Army staff sergeant and the events leading up to his arrival in the combat zone. Master Sergeant Ray Bows, the author of four previous works on the Vietnam War, for the first time recounts his war experiences, and pays tribute to two fallen servicemen from Indiana, US Army Specialist 5 Robert J. Wiedemann and US Marine Corps PFC Joel NN. Mock. Bows tells of his duties with the 4th Transportation Command's 3d Movements Region, through the streets of Saigon, on the Long Binh Highway and with the 25th Infantry Division on convoys from Cu Chi to Tay Ninh. He also tells his experiences as a military escort and relates the story of the courage of a family who lost their son. This experience is a poignant tale of tribute and courage; grief and healing; tragedy and triumph; about leaving for combat and of coming home. In Bows' words, "Bobby Wiedemann was the friend I never knew. Vietnam is a gleaming polished bauble that I periodically take off its shelf and examine. When I look into its shining surface I see the face of SP5 Robert J. Wiedemann, whom for me, is the specter and the personification of the Vietnam War."