[PW] Re: Identification of book about Vietnam
Daphne Drewello
drewello at daktel.com
Thu Nov 30 07:39:19 PST 2006
snopes wrote
> I'm trying to identify a book.....
> The book was written by a draftee (or perhaps a reluctant enlistee) about
> a
> tour of duty he served in Vietnam. ... the author was not part of a
>combat unit, but served (mostly) behind
> the lines at a facility where he repaired trucks and other motor vehicles.
> I also remember that a substantial portion of his narrative dealt with a
> prostitute he met while on leave (somewhere in Asia), whom he wanted to
> take
> back to America after his term of service was up.
Possibly _And A Hard Rain Fell_ by John Ketwig (Macmillan, 1985)
Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jamestown, ND
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