Chickenhawk by Mason, Robert

Chickenhawk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143035718)

Vendor: Robert Mason
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Format: Paperback
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Chickenhawk by Mason, Robert

Chickenhawk

$19.00
Chickenhawk by Mason, Robert

Chickenhawk

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: Robert Mason
ISBN-10: 0143035711
ISBN-13: 9780143035718
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2005
Pages: 492
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.14w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2005 pg. 118
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 43
By Robert Mason
By Robert Mason
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Robert Mason was born in 1942 and grew up on farms in New Jersey and Florida. His boyhood dream of becoming a pilot was finally realized when he earned his private pilot's license prior to his graduation from high school. After studying at the University of Florida from 1960 to 1962 and then working at a variety of jobs for the next two years, he enlisted in the army in 1963. He flew more than 1,000 helicopter combat missions in Vietnam before being discharged in 1968. He is now best-known as the author of Chickenhawk, universally regarded as one of the best books on the Vietnam war and a classic memoir of soldiering.

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