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Chickenhawk Paperback – 24 Aug. 1984

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It will stun readers ― Time

Compelling... A hypnotic narrative ― The New York Times

Chickenhawk is one bloody, painfully honest and courageous book -- Martin Cruz Smith, author

The best book to come out of Vietnam -- John Del Vecchio, author of The 13th Valley

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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, as 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.'

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corgi; paperback / softback edition (24 Aug. 1984)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0552124192
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0552124195
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ Baby and up
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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Robert Mason was born in Plainfield, NJ in March 1942 and moved to DelRay Beach, FL as a small child. He grew upon a chicken farm, dreaming of flying, earned his fixed wing pilot's license in high school, dropped out of the University of Florida after two years and joined the Army to learn to fly helicopters. He spent a 1965-66 in Vietnam flying a Huey slick in B, 229, 1st Cav and the 48th Aviation Co. He wrote his best selling memoir, Chickenhawk, seventeen years later. Weapon, a novel about a military robot who wouldn't obey orders followed, then Chickenhawk: Back in the World, about the difficulties he faced after the war, and Solo, a sequel to Weapon in which Solo moves to NYC, thinking he will fit in.

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