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Title: Rites of Passage: Odyssey of a Grunt by Robert B. Peterson, Joni Peterson, J. Allen Kirsch ISBN: 1-878569-48-1 Publisher: Badger Books (WI) Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: an unforgettable account of Vietnam
Comment: This book was a tragic, candid look at the lives of everyday soldiers caught up in a hellish conflict. This reality is so unimaginable for my generation today, yet these men confronted it with honor and dignity. The author's affection and admiration for his companions makes his memoir both powerful and moving.
Rating: 5
Summary: I'll never smile again
Comment: An incredibly detailed, truthful, moving, and painful personal account of war as experienced by a front line soldier in the Vietnam War.
This book was obviously written from extensive notes taken by the author when he had the time in the field to write down his feelings and experiences. For reasons of his own, the book was not published until after his death in April 1994.
This book will have immense meaning to anyone who has experienced the hell of war, as well as, anyone who wishes to understand the sacrifices our fighting men and women in battle must endure. President Bush and his top advisors should read this book before they send our treasured youth to fight another war. If those in positions of highest political authority, after reading Sgt. Peterson's war memoir, still decide we must go to war then they will understand we must fight the war to the finish with the best military tactics and strategies available not hindered and defined by vague political considerations.
I recommend this book to all. I sincerely thank Mr. and Mrs. Peterson for their service to our country.
Rating: 5
Summary: why was this not a bestseller?
Comment: one of the best memoirs i have read on the vietnam war.
maybe even one of the best books i have ever read.
peterson's daily account of his vietnam experience is meticulously described,providing a view of his metamorphosis from an average midwestern farm boy to combat-weary grunt that is brilliant. reads more like a novel in the sense that the character in the first few chapters could not even fathom the feelings,thoughts, and experiences of the character at the end.
also provides compelling illustrations of the frustrations and inner conflicts felt by an average american required to follow orders which he is morally opposed to and intuitively wary of.
the book grows darker by the page and the reader is drawn into his sense of impending doom and constant fear.
i highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the vietnam war.
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Title: Guns Up by Johnnie M. Clark ISBN: 0345450264 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Not Going Home Alone: A Marine's Story by James Kirschke ISBN: 0345440935 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir by Larry Gwin ISBN: 0804119228 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Diary of an Airborne Ranger: A Lrrp's Year in the Combat Zone by Frank Johnson ISBN: 0804118809 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-Five Months in Vietnam by John Leppelman, John Leppleman ISBN: 0804105626 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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