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Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story
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Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story Hardcover - 1993

by Norman L. Russell

Russell's story is more than a soldier's memoir because it speaks to the universal experience of soldiering. He also shares the struggles of his father, a WWII veteran who eventually took his own life, and his many comrades-in-arms. Russell wrote and produced an award-winning PBS-TV program entitled Fathers and Sons: Two Generations of American Combat Veterans.


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Drafted in the spring of 1968 from a job as a sportswriter for a small, New England daily, six months later Norm Russell found himself serving in the infantry in Vietnam in an outfit nicknamed Suicide Charlie and fighting for his life against some of the North Vietnamese Army's top units. In a remarkable journey that takes the reader from a time of innocence and protest back in the States to the battle of Mole City where, in the author's words, he makes his acquaintance with the Devil, and then beyond into the despair and depravity of combat, the reader experiences the Vietnam War in gripping and graphic detail, as well as the humor and comradery that helped make it all bearable. For Russell, an unlikely soldier caught up in a war in which he did not believe, an outsider who grew up in a single parent home because his father committed suicide not long after returning from infantry duty in Europe during World War II, surviving the war meant learning to accept his own mortality, preparing to die, and then going on . . . Suicide Charlie is the true story of the evolution of a naive 19-year-old into a combat-scarred, Universal Soldier whose search for meaning speaks to questions asked by nearly all concerned citizens of the planet in the late 20th century.

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  • Title Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story
  • Author Norman L. Russell
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger, Westport,CT
  • Date 1993-03
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780275945213 / 0275945219
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.35 x 0.88 in (24.23 x 16.13 x 2.24 cm)
  • Reading level 1080
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Personal, Russell, Norman L
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92029817
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.704

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/15/1993, Page 1672
  • Library Journal, 04/15/1993, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/12/1993, Page 0

About the author

NORMAN L. RUSSELL is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, and a self-employed writer. He has written and produced a PBS-TV program entitled, Fathers and Sons: Two Generations of American Combat Veterans, which won numerous awards.
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