Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam

Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam

From the author of Primary Colors, â€œa remarkably sensitive story of a generationâ€ (The New York Times Book Review): The critically acclaimed true story of five Marines who fought together in a bloody battle during the Vietnam War, barely escaping with their lives, and of what happened when they came home.

In 1981, while the country was celebrating the end of the Iran hostage crisis, an unemployed Vietnam veteran named Gary Cooper went berserk with a gun, angry over the jubilant welcome the hostages received in contrast to his own homecoming from Vietnam, and was killed in a fight with police. In what has been called â€œthe most eloquent work of nonfiction to emerge from Vietnam since Michael Herrâ€™s Dispatchesâ€ (The New York Times), Joe Klein tells Cooperâ€™s story, as well as the stories of four of the other vets in Cooperâ€™s platoon.

The story begins with an ambush and a grisly battle in the Que Son Valley in 1967, but Payback is less about remembering the war and more about examining its long-term effects on the grunts who fought it. Klein fills in the next fifteen years of these Marinesâ€™ lives after they return home, with â€œthe sort of fine and private detail one ordinarily finds only in fictionâ€ (People). The experiences of these five men capture the struggles of a whole generation of Vietnam veterans and their families. Kleinâ€™s â€œnear-hypnoticâ€ account (Daily News, New York) is, to this day, both a remarkable piece of reporting and â€œsome of the most vivid, harrowing, and emotionally honest writing to come out of Vietnamâ€ (The Washington Post Book World).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781451683622
ReleaseDate 2015-10-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451683622

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781451683622
ReleaseDate	2015-10-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451683622

Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam

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