American Boys

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975, 1975. First Edition. 435 pages; 22 cm. Fine in fine jackret now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399114610; 9780399114618; 0399114629; 9780399114625; LCCN: 75-305666 ; 74-16619

Author's first novel, set during the Vietnam War. This action-packed adventure follows a group of soldiers as they navigate the dangers of combat and learn to rely on each other for survival. Early novel of the American infantry war in Vietnam, published while the war was ending, two years after the last American ground troops left. Readers have described the combat writing as brutal, painful and sometimes graphic, set against a lyrical eye for landscape and weather: monsoon rain on the roads, thunder rolling into silence. Out of print for nearly a decade, then reissued as a mass-market paperback by Avon (1984) in the wave of Vietnam fiction that followed the opening of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. | Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. War fiction. Fiction. Romans. Time: 1961-1975