Just started reading this book. It is amazing, and very well written, hard to put down.
Its a novel of a soldier who joins the US military in about 1916, serves in the Pancho Villa expedition than WWI. He then goes on to continue to serve in WWII and the beginning of Vietnam though I won't spoil much of it for you. Only on page about 110 of nearly 1300, though I suggest it for anyone.
http://www.amazon.com/Once-Eagle-Ant.../dp/0061030864
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Once An Eagle
Last edited by Farnan; May 04, 2010 at 12:31 PM.
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I will certainly check it out, thanks for the tip.
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Wasnt sure if it was a novel or not by your description but i checked it out and it looks pretty good... Im going to mark it down for the next book to buy, already got 3 books on my bookshelf waiting to be read.
Vietnam seems like such a boring era though... and how does a soldier make it to vietnam from ww1. He have to be old as
right? In his 60s or 70s at least.
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Well the first US soldiers arrived in Vietnam in the 1950s. He was 18 in 1916, he would be 68 by 1966 which is old, but apparently he is high ranking by then. The book was published in 1968 so it would be the early early stages of the war.
I'm on the WWI part and its amazing. I have never read about WWI combat from the rifleman's perspective so its really unique for me in that regard.Last edited by Farnan; May 04, 2010 at 04:34 PM.
“The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.”
—Sir William Francis Butler -
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1300 pages? Holy Jeebus. Sounds excellent though, will have to check it out some time.
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Oh and Mathias its not about Vietnam, Vietnam is just a part of it.
“The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.”
—Sir William Francis Butler -
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Yeah not it makes sense... I thought the first troops were arriving in the early 60s at least.
Still Ill buy it soon... thanks for the reference mate. There are so few ww1 books out there. -
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The first US soldiers arrived in 1950, military advisors to the French and later South Vietnamese forces.
Last edited by Farnan; May 04, 2010 at 05:42 PM.
“The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.”
—Sir William Francis Butler
