I didn't set out to write a book. It was 1982, fourteen years after I had last set foot in Vietnam, and thirteen years after I returned to The World. I had a family and a career. I'd never written more than an occasional letter to the editor in my life. My twisted insides had spawned ulcers. The nightmares were more frequent. I needed to get Vietnam out into the open, but I couldn't talk about it. Not after all those years.Thus begins John Ketwig's powerful memoir of the Vietnam War. Now, over 15 years after its initial publication, Sourcebooks is proud to bring ...and a hard rain fell back into print in a newly updated edition, with a new introduction by the author and eight pages of never-before-published photographs. From the country roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam, and finally to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., ...and a hard rain fell is a gripping and visceral account of one young man's struggle to make sense of his place in a world gone mad.

And A Hard Rain Fell: A Gi's True Story Of The War In Vietnam

Biographies & Memoirs

John Ketwig

Historical

Longman Pub. Group

didn't set out to write a book. It was 1982, fourteen years after I had last set foot in Vietnam, and thirteen years after I returned to The World. I had a family and a career. I'd never written more than an occasional letter to the editor in my life. My twisted insides had spawned ulcers. The nightmares were more frequent. I needed to get Vietnam out into the open, but I couldn't talk about it. Not after all those years.Thus begins John Ketwig's powerful memoir of the Vietnam War. Now, over 15 years after its initial publication, Sourcebooks is proud to bring ...and a hard rain fell back into print in a newly updated edition, with a new introduction by the author and eight pages of never-before-published photographs. From the country roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam, and finally to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., ...and a hard rain fell is a gripping and visceral account of one young man's struggle to make sense of his place in a world gone mad.

...And A Hard Rain Fell

History

Americas

Pocket

<p>In "the first Vietnam book written from the point of view of an army private" (Rochester Times Union), Ketwig urges the reader to understand how greatly the soldiers longed to return to The World, how the "conflict" was in fact a war that claimed over 57,000 lives, and how he feels today about the turmoil. HC: Macmillan. (Military History)</p>

And a Hard Rain Fell: A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam

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...And A Hard Rain Fell

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And a Hard Rain Fell: A GI's True story of the War in Vietnam, Updated Edition