From Viet Nam: Strange Stories from the War in Viet Nam (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

FROM VIET NAM. Not “war stories” in the usual sense. These are twelve curious stories with a touch of horror, the bizarre, the macabre, and even the supernatural, by Mike Hurley, writing as Chee Xao. Hurley calls them “Strange Stories” drawn from what he “heard, saw, and experienced” in Viet Nam. There’s a weird but practical reason why the Army nurse keeps her legs wide apart when she sleeps. Dutch Lemwauk is determined to get the story, but gets more than he bargained for. Giap-soh was a success...he was alive. Specialist Fourth Class Sam gets good advice: the only parts of a monkey you can eat raw are its blood and eyeballs. Ba Trung’s treasure is only a comb, made in the U.S.A. Private Enricco is so in love with his machete that he sleeps with it...until one fateful day. Imagine the consequences of overflying your Drop Zone by ten seconds; on second thought, maybe it’s better not to. Corporal Addam finds nothing left but smoke, fire, death, and dying, and yet he refuses to go. A dead tiger speaks and unravels a mystery. Grandpa reluctantly talks about his painful experience, and General Weymouth comes home covered with glory.