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Novato, CA:: Presidio Press, , (1981). Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Book club edition. The author served four tours in Vietnam, although this book focuses on his third tour as company commander in the 1st Cavalry Division "Comanche Six" - it tells the story of young American infantrymen caught up in a war that could not be won, how in the process young boys became fighters and leaders - but he does not hesitate to report on the horrors of war, "of infantrymen cut in half by enemy fire, of a firefight in a sector littered with two-week-old decaying corpses, of leeches in every rice paddy." Glossary. 254 pp.

Iowa City:: University of Iowa Press, , (1991). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. An anthology which includes "fourteen diverse and powerful works by some of today's leading critics in Vietnam studies begin to answer the question of how we will filter the writings of the Vietnam War - including fiction, poetry, drama, and memoirs. What will survive the process of critical acclaim and societal affirmationand why?" Among the essays are "Humping the Boonies on Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country" by Katherine Kinney; "The Vietnam War Novels of Taikesho Kaiko" by Mark A. Heberle and much more. Works cited at the end of each essay. 250 pp.

New York:: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence,, (1978). Hardcover -. Near fine in teal cloth in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some short edge tears).. 2nd printing. The author's third novel, considered one of the best ever written about the war in Vietnam and how it affected the men who fought there. "Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, 'Going After Cacciato' captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked this the strangest of wars. Reality and fantasy merge in this fictional account of one private's sudden discussion to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic journey from the of Indochina to the streets of Paris. Will Cacciato make it all the way? Or will he be yet another casualty of a conflict that seems to have no end? In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing and meeting the demands of the battle, 'Going After Cacciato' stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and… Read More

New York:: Pocket Books,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. The third book in Carroll's Vietnam War / Naval aviation trilogy. Set in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army is smashing its way to Saigon, and the remaining American troops are trying to see that all American personnel are evacuated. Afterword by Tom Clancy. 419 pp.

New York:: SOHO Press,, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A brief, but highly praised, novel about the Vietman war by an author who was a Special Forces Sergeant in Vietnam at Plei Me in Vietnam's Central Highlands and later at Pleiku (where this novel is set) in 1964 and 1965. "Sergeant Dickinson is the radioman of a Special Forces A-Team in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The camp is encircled and attacked for nine days by the North Vietnamese Army, anxious to lure larger American units into combat for the first time. Dickinson survives, just. The remnants of the team are broken up, the soldiers scattered among other commands. A unit that battered, goes the thinking, can't be put back together." This book was originally published in 1985 in somewhat different form under the title, "The Negligence of Death". SIGNED on the title page. 184 pp.

Dobbs Ferry, NY:: Morgan & Morgan,, 1984.. First edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of back cover).. First printing, a trade paperback original. Essays on post-traumatic stress disorder as experienced by Vietman vets by Carl Trocki, Robert J. Lifton, John P. Wilson, Jim Goodwin, Tom Keller and Jerry Atchison, Arthur S. Blank, Jr., Arthur Egendorf, Peter Marin and Robert O. Muller. Illustrated with photographs by Gordon Baer. Directory of Outreach Programs, bibliograhy. Large square format. 112 pp.

Hilger, MT:: Bowman's Books,, (2006). SIGNED -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 2nd printing, a trade paperback original. Memoir in which the author, now in his 60s, remembers fighting in Vietnam against a foe fiercely determined to protect their land, and how he found relief from living with the memories of the horrors of war and the ineptitude of the US government in the Montana wilderness. INSCRIBED on the first page and dated in 2007. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 257 pp.