A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war.
CHICKENHAWK
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 1000 assault missions.
In CHICKENHAWK Robert Mason gives us a devastationg bird's eye
view of that war in all it's 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.