”Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst the insanity of the Vietnam war. The final few pages are the most shocking I have read in any book.” – Tim Peake
A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war.
As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating.
As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters – and the U.S. Army gave him his chance.
They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July 1966 , he flew more than 1, 000 assault missions. In Chickenhawk, Robert Mason gives us a devastating bird”s eye-view of that war in all its horror.
He experiences the accelerating terror, the increasingly desperate courage of a man ”acting out the role of a hero long after he realises that the conduct of the war is insane, ” says the New York Times.
”And we can”t stop ourselves from identifying with it.”
CHICKENHAWK contains the most vivid, astoundingly intense descriptions of flying ever written. It is a devastating account of men at war, of courage and cowardice, boredom and exhilaration, lasting friendship and sudden death. It is not a book for weak stomachs, but its powerful message will stay in the memory long after the last page is turned.
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