F.N.G Revised Edition by Donald Bodey

Original Title in English: F.N.GBy Author: Donald Bodey

ISBN: 1932590690

280 pages

Book Review:

Everyone is gunning for the New Guy.
Gabriel Sauers of Two Squad is a soldier, newly arrived in Vietnam - a country to beautiful to invite savagely unreal a war. But Gabriel won't be a New Guy for a long. He'll go through incoming mortars, he will see the enemy alive. He'll wander through a hell that will turn the green recruit lucky enough to survive into a death-hardened veteren, longing for nothing more than to return to the world of hot bath or cold beer, no bullet or no noise. Now, 40 years later, he is grappling with an action on the verge of his grandson Seth's deployment to Iraq that will change both their lives forever.

What are people saying about F.N.G

"The day to day grind, beautiflully and touchingly rendered by...a Vietnam veteren, is told with an unrelenting accumulation of detail." - The New York Times Book Reviews
"Bodey packs a considerable emotional freight into style that remains deliberately supple, cool, declarative... An impressive novel" - The Cleverland Plain Dealer
"A harrowing vividly written account of hell with a leavenly of light moments. A revelation for one who wasn't there. Painful for those who were" - Bod Mason, author of CHICKENHAKW

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A Soldier Reports

Original title in English by Author: William C. Westmoreland
Vietnamese Title: Tường Trình của một Quân Nhân
Vietnamese Translator: Unknown
Publisher: Da Capo Pr (September 1989)

Review: (by Kirkus Reviews)

The general's early years: the son of a South Carolina textile owner, he graduated from West Point in 1936 and married the now grown-up nine-year-old with pigtails he had fallen in love with at Fort Sills.

Westmoreland aimed to hit the "wreckers" (regular enemy units) instead of the "termites" (guerrillas), although he also favored SEAL, CORDS, HOP TAC, SOG and other special squads against the partisan forces. From his utter inability to describe the key tactical defeat in the Ia Drang Valley to his unflagging refusal to understand why South Vietnamese politics were so "unstable" and his blindness to Air Force defoliation and Army mass murder, the man seems either stupid or dishonest. At least part of the incomprehension is probably genuine, since major parts of the war were being done by the CIA as counterinsurgency training outside ordinary military channels. He was pulled out in 1968, without umbrage, he claims. Then and only then morale collapsed and that signaled the end of the war - but Communism still had to be contained. To prove that he had no emotional connection with his job, the General describes visits to several POW camps, where Vietcong forces were imprisoned; he found that standards of international law were being upheld. His recurrent theme, however, is his access to the great - Truman, Johnson, Kennedy, Lodge, MacArthur (the real hero) and Ford. His jokes in their presence are reproduced for our benefit. It can be said in the book's favor that it seems, not ghostwritten, but a true reflection of the subject's mind.

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