My Detachment: A Memoir (Audio)
by:
Tracy Kidder (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781415924235 (1415924236)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Books on Tape
Edition language: English
"What are they going to do Lt.? Send you to Vietnam?" This little question defines the relationship among draftees and lifers. Kidder was assigned to an intelligence unit in Vietnam that handled radio traffic. Their job was to monitor and triangulate North Vietnamese radio traffic. The lifers seemed...
just didn't grab me
In this memoir of Kidder's stint in Vietnam, he pulls no punches, describing the callow youth he was with unrelenting candor. Fine writing and a fascinating tale.
+ Well-written and a nice direction for Kidder- Brief at times, sometimes interpersonally flatA poignant memoir of the author's service in the Vietnam War. Following Kidder's Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man W