Free Fire Zone - Short Stories By Vietnam Veterans

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. - A 1st Casualty Book, 1973. Trade Paperback. Good. 5 1/2" x 8. 208 Pages. Index of Authors and Photographers. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Store stamp on title page. Straight square book with some cover edge wear, corner creases and front page edges have light staining. This is the second volume in a series of veterans' writings coming out of the Indochina experience. The first was Winning Hearts and Minds and the third book is Postmortem. The editors suggest that the 21 authors of these selections are a collective insight into the price paid by both peoples when one culture attempts to strip another of its dignity and destroy its gods and explores America's attempt to shape an ancient Asian cultdure into an image that reflects our own ophysical and psychological needs. They further suggest that there were three levels of experience: men wh operation out of this realization, those who were aware of their loss of freedom but failed to confront it, and the majority who never understood and that most Americans have also refused to understand the sickness and pushed it back into the nations's psyche, lwhere it grows and engenders new disease. The Authors are: William Pelfrey, David Huddle, James Shields, and the three editors, James Aitken, Igor Bobrowsky, Frank Cross, William Currer, George Davis, James Dorris, Julian Grajewski, John Kimpel, Loyd Little, Michael McCusker, Quentin Mueller, Oran Pitts, Steven Smith, John Tavela, Martin Ray, and Vernon Schibla. Titles are: Gliding Baskets, The Old Man, Bangalore, The Meeting, Medical Evacation, The Accident, First Light, Out with the Lions, Search and Destroy, The Vietnamese Elections, The Interrogation of the Prisoner Bung by Mister Hawkins and Sergeant Tree, And Even Beautiful Hands Cry, Lederer's Legacy, The Courier, Cadidate, Thi Bong Dzu, Temporary Duty, R&R, Ben, Souvenir, Warren, Extract, Ben, The Rabbi, and, Children Sleeping-Bombs Falling.