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Chickenhawk

Author Robert Mason
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Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
On sale Mar 29, 2005 | 496 Pages | 9781101175156
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War

More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger.

"Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Robert Mason is a Vietnam veteran who has authored several military books and two memoirs. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1942, Mason earned his pilot's license in high school and spent two years at the University of Florida before dropping out to learn to fly helicopters for the US Army. He wrote his bestselling memoir, Chickenhawk, 17 years later in 1983. He has also published two novels, Weapon and Solo, as well as a follow-up memoir, Chickenhawk: Back in the World. View titles by Robert Mason
"Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"[Chickenhawk]'s vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stun readers." —Time

"Mason's gripping memoir . . . proves again that reality is more interesting, and often more terrifying, than fiction." —Los Angeles Times

"More than any other writer, Mason has been able to capture the feeling of what it was like to be there." —The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A hypnotic narrative." —The New York Times

"Better than any movie about the war." —Boston Herald

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A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War

More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger.

"Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Author

Robert Mason is a Vietnam veteran who has authored several military books and two memoirs. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1942, Mason earned his pilot's license in high school and spent two years at the University of Florida before dropping out to learn to fly helicopters for the US Army. He wrote his bestselling memoir, Chickenhawk, 17 years later in 1983. He has also published two novels, Weapon and Solo, as well as a follow-up memoir, Chickenhawk: Back in the World. View titles by Robert Mason

Praise

"Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"[Chickenhawk]'s vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stun readers." —Time

"Mason's gripping memoir . . . proves again that reality is more interesting, and often more terrifying, than fiction." —Los Angeles Times

"More than any other writer, Mason has been able to capture the feeling of what it was like to be there." —The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A hypnotic narrative." —The New York Times

"Better than any movie about the war." —Boston Herald

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