For every generation there is a novel, which, in its passion, its commitment, its understanding, has the power to recall a time that still troubles or ispires us, that touches us so deeply we cannot let it go. And no time in this century - not even the years of our two world wars - has so rent our lives between devotion and definance, between bravery and sorrow, as that era of protest and sacrifice, the tragedy of Vietnam.

WAR - VIETNAM - FICTION -