Dear Mom: A Sniper's Vietnam by Joseph T. Ward
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: August 1991
- 272pp
- Sales Rank: 48,656
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 1991
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 272pp
- Sales Rank: 48,656
- ISBN-13: 9780804108539
- ISBN: 0804108536
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: Reprint
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The letters Joseph War, one of the elite Marine Scout Snipers, wrote home reveal a side of the Vietnam war seldom seen. Whether under nigthly mortar attack in An Hoa, with a Marine company in the bullet-scarred jungle, on secret missions to Laos, or on dangerous two-man hunter-kills, Ward lived the war in a way few men did. And he fought the enemy as few men did--up close and personal.
A Dual Main Selection of the Military Book Club
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March 17, 2008: Thru the deepest dungeon to the highest peak. Ward takes you thru his experience fighting in Vietnam. Some things are amazingly action packed. Others are so humbling, you'll be equally amazed. In here you will read what one good American or enemy sniper can do. Also about how he met a humble Medal of Honor recipient. The stress of war. The miraculous survival of a suicidal soldier who stood up in front of the enemy, untouched! Some of his kill assignments. Displays of humanity and inhumanity. All that and much much more.
the true 'nitty gritty' of a very dirty war'by Anonymous
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January 25, 2008: Out of the many books I've read about the Viet Nam conflict, I was greatly taken aback by the title. I thought this would be a soft story of a G.I. complaining to his mom of the stress of war, but this book is nothing like that! I felt that I was actually there! The descriptions of combat, the feelings that Ward expresses, and the exerpts of Ward's letters to his mother truly convey how horrible this war was to the average 18-19 year old foot soldier. Without ruining the story to the potential reader, there was one anecdote of where Ward and his comrades find a 25 year old female NVA soldier barely alive and bleeding to death in a tunnel complex that the Americans discovered, and the description of how she was executed was so barbaric and horrible I couldn't stop thinking about it for days! Other topics discussed were 'Fragging', failed Vietnamization, the assasinations of the 'Phoenix Program', G.I. drug use and racial tensions. A must read!
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