Chickenhawk
by:
Robert Mason (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670215829 (0670215821)
Publish date: June 1st 1983
Publisher: Viking Press
Pages no: 339
Edition language: English
Chickenhawk I had to raise my rating on this reread to 5 Stars. This is the story of a helicopter pilot and his experiences from training to combat in Vietnam. He has a great eye for the successes and failures of the new air assault tactics as they are developed and employed. The heart-pounding trip...
Nonfiction account of one man's experiences as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. I was a little worried at first that i would be lost because there are diagrams of the helicopters' parts and of the pilot's station. I figured the story would be very technical. The author was able to describe things in ...
The Spouse reads a lot about wars. I read considerably less about wars because I like my books to have women in them, which mostly war books don't except as sex objects. Nonetheless, from time to time, I do pick up one of his and read it. This one has a certain M*A*S*H-like humor and irreverence,...
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