Ebook {Epub PDF} And a Hard Rain Fell by John Ketwig

John Ketwig. We debate teenage drinking and teenage voting, says John Ketwig in his book, and a hard rain fell; how about teenage war? A good question, and one, which Ketwig comes back to in various forms. Not a novel, not a journal or a diary, and a hard rain fell began as Ketwig's attempt to put something on paper to describe, for his young daughters, the experience of Vietnam. He . and a hard rain fell A GIs True Story of the War in. 78; No Comments. And A Hard Rain Fell - Gis True Story Of The War In. After 30+ years and 27 printings, and a hard rain fell: A G.I.’s True Story of the War in Vietnam is still on bookstore shelves. That was a memoir, but I found, after many years of meeting students, veterans, and baby boomers that I needed to say more about the war and modern-day militarism in America.

Updated for its 20th anniversary with a new afterword on the Iraq War and its parallels to Vietnam, John Ketwig's message is as relevant today as it was twenty years ago. "A magnetic, bloody, moving, and worm's-eye view of soldiering in Vietnam, an account that is from the first page to last a wound that can never heal. Then he went to "The Nam". The world was falling down around him and the rest of his generation. This is a masterpiece of war narrative. Enduring a rocket barrage on Ar'tilery Hill. Waiting out the Tet Offensive for two weeks in a bunker. by John Ketwig. A classic, must-read Vietnam war memoir The classic Vietnam war memoir, and a hard rain fell is the unforgettable story of a veteran's rage and the unflinching portrait of a young soldier's odyssey from the roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam. Updated for its 20th anniversary.

After 30+ years and 27 printings, and a hard rain fell: A G.I.’s True Story of the War in Vietnam is still on bookstore shelves. That was a memoir, but I found, after many years of meeting students, veterans, and baby boomers that I needed to say more about the war and modern-day militarism in America. And a Hard Rain Fell: A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam: Author: John Ketwig: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc., ISBN: X, Length: by John Ketwig. A classic, must-read Vietnam war memoir The classic Vietnam war memoir, and a hard rain fell is the unforgettable story of a veteran's rage and the unflinching portrait of a young soldier's odyssey from the roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam. Updated for its 20th anniversary.