A Young Man's Guide To The Surreality of War
by J. M. Carroll
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Pub Date Mar 15 2024 | Archive Date Jan 01 2024
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Description
‘A Young Man’s Guide to the Surreality of War’ is both a full tilt thriller and a cautionary coming of age story that demonstrates how completely out of control your life, and reality, can become when you join the military.
After an unfortunate incident involving a General’s daughter, a young helicopter pilot “volunteers” to go undercover on a Medevac crew suspected of selling Army medicines to the enemy.
This is a story about how war destroys our bravest young men and women from the inside out. The story starts out funny and descends into horror.
The truth about war can only be told of the wars of the past.
And the truth about the wars of the past, and present, is at their core, from the very beginning of time until now, it is a madness of death and slaughter where everyone prays to the God or Gods that are on their side, and hopes to survive. Does whatever is necessary to survive.
Three parts of you have to survive a war. Your body, your sanity and your self. Who you believe you are. Who you can live with.
Lose any one of them and the other two are worthless.
It is 1971 and two best friends want to become airline pilots. They already have private pilots’ licenses. The recruiter assures them that Army would be happy to make them fully qualified pilots in a just few short years. No one mentioned that the Army only needed helicopter pilots, and that they only needed them in Vietnam.
Welcome through the looking glass.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780648783816 |
| PRICE | $9.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 235 |
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Featured Reviews
Madeleine R, Reviewer
My advice to readers: buckle up and get ready for some intensity. I was on the edge of my seat and read this book in less than 24 hours. It was nearly impossible to put down once I was over the initial information dump of army lingo (which was necessary for me to understand what they were saying). I highly recommend if you can stomach some graphic descriptions of injuries and death. I will be reflecting on some of the questions posed throughout this book about humanity for a good while after putting this book down.
My goodness this book is intense. This historical fiction follows the story of soon to be pilots, Johnnie Mack and his friend Face, and a triage nurse, Annie, and their time in the Vietnam war. It describes day-to-day life of various soldiers in an active war zone, how it changed them, and who they become because of these changes. The character descriptions and development were fantastic. The author’s writing allows the book to read as more of a stream of thought, detailing both what was going on in each experience as well as what was going on in the characters head and I thought that was excellent story telling.
Trigger warnings would include : murder, bloodshed, racism, rape, torture, alcohol/drug addiction.
