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Prewitt, J. Everett

 
9780976192756: A Long Way Back
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0976192756 ISBN 13: 9780976192756
Verlag: Northland Publishing Company, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

It’s 1969 in Vietnam. A racial incident causes a riot at the Cu Chi Army base. Fifteen black, mostly non-combat soldiers are sent on an illegal mission into Cambodia as punishment for their participation. They are led by a battle weary Sergeant Willie Stinson, who, anticipating a confrontation with the Viet Cong, teaches the soldiers the basics of combat. The men are abandoned by the commanding officer who sent them, and after their first firefight, Sergeant Stinson is missing in action. The seven surviving wounded and starving soldiers realize that if they are to escape Cambodia alive, they will have to unite and employ the fighting tactics they’ve learned from Stinson. Anthony Andrews, a reporter for the Washington Post, inquires about seven disheveled soldiers he watched disembark from a helicopter in Cu Chi, but faces resistance from the Army. Sensing something is amiss, he pursues the story. With help from an anonymous source, he identifies and locates the men after their discharge, but they are reluctant to talk. When Andrews obtains information about their missing sergeant, the seven agree to meet with him and tell their story. Andrews publicizes their improbable account of survival. This initiates an investigation that punishes the commanding officer and redeems the men who were not only declared AWOL, but were given Less Than Honorable Discharges.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

I am a Vietnam veteran and a former Army officer. My debut novel Snake Walkers placed first for fiction in four different literary contests and won the Bronze award for General Fiction in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year contest. Snake Walkers was also honored by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. My second novel, A Long Way Back, was published in October 2015. It was awarded the Literary Classic's Seal of Approval. It won the Independent Publisher's of New England first place award, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal Award and received awards from the INDIEFAB Book of the Year and Literary Classics.The second edition of my third novel, Something About Ann, was published January 2024.

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When a reporter for the Washington Post sees a group of wounded, half-starved, black troops disembark from a helicopter in Cu Chi during the height of the Vietnam War, he senses a story but receives no cooperation from the army or the soldiers.The men, mostly noncombat soldiers, are the remnant of a squad sent on an illegal mission to Cambodia as punishment for their participation in a race riot at Cu Chi base camp. Led by a battle-fatigued sergeant, they fall under enemy fire. Their leader inexplicably disappears, leaving the ill-prepared soldiers to fight the jungle and enemy on their own.Although forced to confront the shock of combat and a deteriorating family life, the reporter pursues the story hoping to uncover the truth about what happened to those soldiers in the jungle.An intriguing glimpse into the Vietnam War, A Long Way Back is a tense journey merging the lives of the soldiers and the reporter as they struggle to overcome their fear and face the battles they must fight to survive.

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When a reporter for the Washington Post sees a group of wounded, half-starved, black troops disembark from a helicopter in Cu Chi during the height of the Vietnam War, he senses a story but receives no cooperation from the army or the soldiers.The men, mostly noncombat soldiers, are the remnant of a squad sent on an illegal mission to Cambodia as punishment for their participation in a race riot at Cu Chi base camp. Led by a battle-fatigued sergeant, they fall under enemy fire. Their leader inexplicably disappears, leaving the ill-prepared soldiers to fight the jungle and enemy on their own.Although forced to confront the shock of combat and a deteriorating family life, the reporter pursues the story hoping to uncover the truth about what happened to those soldiers in the jungle.An intriguing glimpse into the Vietnam War, A Long Way Back is a tense journey merging the lives of the soldiers and the reporter as they struggle to overcome their fear and face the battles they must fight to survive.

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Verlag
Northland Publishing Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0976192756
ISBN 13 
9780976192756
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
404
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