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Xin Loi, Viet Nam: Thirty-one Months of War: A Soldier's Memoir
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Xin Loi, Viet Nam: Thirty-one Months of War: A Soldier's Memoir Mass market paperbound - 2005

by Sever, Al

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All the hell, horror, and heroism of helicopter gunship combat above the jungles of Vietnam is captured in this gritty, gut-wrenching, firsthand account by a veteran of nearly all the war's major campaigns.

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  • Title Xin Loi, Viet Nam: Thirty-one Months of War: A Soldier's Memoir
  • Author Sever, Al
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Presidio Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date March 1, 2005
  • Bookseller's Inventory # F08M-01148
  • ISBN 9780891418566 / 0891418563
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.1 x 4.16 x 0.95 in (18.03 x 10.57 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 - Aerial
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the publisher

AL SEVER, a crew member on various types of helicopters, served in Vietnam from the heavy combat days of 1968 to the moral and physical disintegration of our forces in 1972. From the Delta to the DMZ, he observed the varied facets of the war as the opposing armies clashed and maneuvered throughout the country. He lives in Montoursville, Pennsylvania.

First line

Anthracite coal country, hard coal and hard times, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, is where I'm from.

From the jacket flap

No one in Vietnam had to tell door gunner and gunship crew chief Al Sever that the odds didn't look good. He volunteered for the job well aware that hanging out of slow-moving choppers over hot LZs blazing with enemy fire was not conducive to a long life. But that wasn't going to stop Specialist Sever.
From Da Nang to Cu Chi and the Mekong Delta, Sever spent thirty-one months in Vietnam, fighting in eleven of the war's sixteen campaigns. Every morning when his gunship lifted off, often to the clacking and muzzle flashes of AK-47s hidden in the dawn fog, Sever knew he might not return. This raw, gritty, gut-wrenching firsthand account of American boys fighting and dying in Vietnam captures all the hell, horror, and heroism of that tragic war.

Media reviews

“A grunt’s-eye view of the Vietnam War by a good soldier.”
–DAVID HACKWORTH

“Xin Loi, Viet Nam lays it all on the line. . . . A story that every reader who wants to feel part of the battles he fought should know.”
–WILLIAM R. PHILLIPS, author of Night of the Silver Stars: The Battle of Lang Vei

Citations

  • Ingram Paperback Advance, 03/01/2005, Page 63

About the author

AL SEVER, a crew member on various types of helicopters, served in Vietnam from the heavy combat days of 1968 to the moral and physical disintegration of our forces in 1972. From the Delta to the DMZ, he observed the varied facets of the war as the opposing armies clashed and maneuvered throughout the country. He lives in Montoursville, Pennsylvania.

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