| Xin Loi, Viet Nam: Thirty-One Months of War: A Soldier's Memoir Contributor(s): Sever, Al (Author) |
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ISBN: 0891418563 ISBN-13: 9780891418566 Publisher: Presidio Press OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: No one in Vietnam had to tell door gunner and gunship crew chief Al Sever that the odds didn't look good. He volunteered for the job well aware that hanging out of slow-moving choppers over hot LZs blazing with enemy fire was not conducive to a long life. But that wasn't going to stop Specialist Sever. From Da Nang to Cu Chi and the Mekong Delta, Sever spent thirty-one months in Vietnam, fighting in eleven of the war's sixteen campaigns. Every morning when his gunship lifted off, often to the clacking and muzzle flashes of AK-47s hidden in the dawn fog, Sever knew he might not return. This raw, gritty, gut-wrenching firsthand account of American boys fighting and dying in Vietnam captures all the hell, horror, and heroism of that tragic war. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | Military - Vietnam War - History | Military - Aviation |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 4.16" W x 7.1" (0.36 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
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| Publisher Description: No one in Vietnam had to tell door gunner and gunship crew chief Al Sever that the odds didn't look good. He volunteered for the job well aware that hanging out of slow-moving choppers over hot LZs blazing with enemy fire was not conducive to a long life. But that wasn't going to stop Specialist Sever. From Da Nang to Cu Chi and the Mekong Delta, Sever spent thirty-one months in Vietnam, fighting in eleven of the war's sixteen campaigns. Every morning when his gunship lifted off, often to the clacking and muzzle flashes of AK-47s hidden in the dawn fog, Sever knew he might not return. This raw, gritty, gut-wrenching firsthand account of American boys fighting and dying in Vietnam captures all the hell, horror, and heroism of that tragic war. |