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Chickenhawk

By Robert Mason

By Robert Mason

By Robert Mason

By Robert Mason

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Mar 29, 2005 | ISBN 9780143035718

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Mar 29, 2005 | ISBN 9781101175156

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    About Chickenhawk

    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

    About Chickenhawk

    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

    About Robert Mason

    Robert Mason is a Vietnam veteran who has authored several military books and two memoirs. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1942, Mason earned his pilot’s license in high school and spent two years at the University of Florida before… More about Robert Mason

    About Robert Mason

    Robert Mason is a Vietnam veteran who has authored several military books and two memoirs. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1942, Mason earned his pilot’s license in high school and spent two years at the University of Florida before… More about Robert Mason

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 1950 – Present Military History

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 29, 2005 | 512 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143035718

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 1950 – Present Military History

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 29, 2005 | 496 Pages | ISBN 9781101175156

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    Praise

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

    “[Chickenhawk]’s vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stune readers.” –Time

    “Mason’s gripping memoir . . . proves again that reality is more interesting, and often more terrifying, than fiction.” –Los Angeles Times

    “More than any other writer, Mason has been able to capture the feeling of what it was like to be there.” -The Philadelphia Inquirer 

    “A hypnotic narrative.” –The New York Times

    “Better than any movie about the war.” –Boston Herald 

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