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Lieutenant Dangerous : a Vietnam War memoir / Jeff Danziger.
A conversation with a group of today's military age men and women about America's involvement in Vietnam inspired Jeff Danziger to write about his own wartime experiences: "War is interesting," he reveals, "if you can avoid getting killed, and don't mind loud noises." Fans of his cartooning will recognize his mordant humor applied to his own wartime training and combat experiences: "I learned, and I think most veterans learn, that making people or nations do something by bombing or sending in armed troops usually fails." Near the end of his telling, Danziger invites his audience--in particular the young friends who inspired him to write this informative and rollicking memoir--to ponder: "What would you do? . . . Could you summon the bravery--or the internal resistance--to simply refuse to be part of the whole idiotic theater of the war? . . . Or would you be like me?"--Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781586422738
- ISBN: 1586422731
- Physical Description: 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Lebanon, New Hampshire : Steerforth Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Danziger, Jeff. Danziger, Jeff. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Personal narratives, American. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Personal narratives > American. Personal narratives. Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | 979.7043 DAN (Text) | 000161800 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Lieutenant Dangerous : A Vietnam War Memoir
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Lieutenant Dangerous : A Vietnam War Memoir
'Most readers will know Jeff Danziger as a brilliant cartoonist. Lieutenant Dangerous shows that he is a brilliant writer as well. Full of mordant observations and absurdist escapades, this memoir of his army service reads like a real-life Catch 22 - with Danziger as the Captain Yossarian of the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Dangerous joins the small shelf of must-read books for a sense of what it was really like to be a soldier in America's most unpopular war.' - Max Boot, author of The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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