Kenneth Levin's The Many Deaths of Comrade Binh: Tales from the Vietnam War PDF

By Kenneth Levin

ISBN-10: 0615905552

ISBN-13: 9780615905556

The brief tales contained in The Many Deaths of Comrade Binh are fiction. this doesn't, even though, suggest they are not precise. Retired naval officer Kenneth Levin easily admits to a couple creative license, yet each one story relies on real occasions that happened throughout the Vietnam War.

Twice wounded within the line of accountability, Levin recalls the horrors of struggle all too good. He attracts idea from his personal studies and people of colleagues, allies, and mercenaries, in addition to civilians and participants of the North Vietnamese military.

Levin by no means forgets how deeply struggle impacts either warring parties and bystanders, or how conflict occasionally forces people to behave inhumanely. lots of his tales are in a position to relocating you to tears—or hectic sufficient to maintain you up at night.

At a similar time, humanity has a knack for survival even in wartime, a fact mirrored in Levin's tales of humor, irony, and love.

Despite being battle tales, The Many Deaths of Comrade Binh by no means glorifies warfare. Levin understands his topic too good to romanticize conflict or mistake jingoism for patriotism. such as Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War, Levin's tales are concerning the terrifying impression of battle on usual people.

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