****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
HARD WAY HOMEThe story starts with another day of operations at a remote outpost and a camp in Northern Vietnam in 1969 in the middle of the raging war, where you get an eagle's eye view of the day to day life of the American Army stationed there, and the cultural differences and prejudices that color the times... Combat, death and struggle for survival are the order of the day, and seemingly ordinary events turn to extraordinary acts of treason and lethal deception. You witness the action through the eyes of the author with his photographic memory, of every little detail, color, move, expression.Fast-forward to the end of the war in 1976, and the official agreements for return of POW-MIA's. The story takes off and soars into breath-stopping heights....The dirty little secrets of the government hypocrisy, the escapes, the return and the disillusionment of the men...Despite the disclaimer of the author about the fictitiousness of this book, and living in the days of another questionable war where Big Brother has a free hand, you can't help but wonder how much of this Historic Fiction is fiction and how much isn't.I haven't read a book this good for a long time. I'd place it among the best books of War Fiction I have ever read. Well worth the time, and looking forward to the next work of Dennis W. Clark.
