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  • Non Fiction
    Memoir
    Vietnam

    Chickenhawk

    Authored by Robert Mason
    Published 1983

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    Synopsis

    A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War

    More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a “chickenhawk” in constant danger.

    “Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam.” –St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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