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...And a Hard Rain Fell

A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam

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...And a Hard Rain Fell

By: John Ketwig
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
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A classic, must-listen 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 twentieth 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. A searing gift to his country."-Kirkus Reviews

"Solidly effective. He describes with ingenuous energy and authentic language that time and place."-Library Journal

"Perhaps as evocative of that awful time in Vietnam as the great fictions . . . a wild surreal account, at its best as powerful as Celine's darkling writing of World War One."-Washington Post

©2002, 2008 John Ketwig (P)2024 Tantor Military Military & War Vietnam War War Imperial Japan

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This is the first book I've ever read/listened regarding factual accounts from the Vietnam war. So it was interesting and shocking to learn of the conditions the soldiers had to endure, as well as the atrocious events they had to experience. But having said that, I think there could be better alternatives. I'd break this book down like so, 50% spending time with 'ladies of the night'. 25% exploring American political policies relating to war. 25% actual Vietnam experiences. Use that information as you like.

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