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Who Owns The Night? Vietnam: Personal And Fictional Narratives, Charles F. Angell
Who Owns The Night? Vietnam: Personal And Fictional Narratives, Charles F. Angell
Bridgewater Review
Novels and reminiscences written by Vietnam combat veterans are being published with increasing frequency. Dust jackets and end papers proclaim that each new narrative is for Vietnam what All Quiet on the Western Front was for World War I and The Naked and the Dead or Catch 22 were for World War II. Unfortunately, if it can be said that generals fight current wars using the tactics of earlier wars, so Vietnam War authors structure their narratives using the frameworks of earlier writers. Too many – Winston Groom’s Better Times Than These or Steven Phillips Smith’s American Boys are typical …