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Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader in Vietnam
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by Nathaniel Tripp

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A former platoon leader reflects on his troubled father, the meaning of leadership, and living life on the front lines in "one of the finest soldier memoirs of the Vietnam War" (The Boston Globe)

Nathaniel Tripp grew up fatherless in a house full of women. When he arrived in Vietnam as a just-promoted second lieutenant in the summer of 1968, he had no memory of a man's example to guide and sustain him. The father missing from Tripp's life was a military man himself--a Navy soldier in World War II--but the terrors of war were too much for him. Addled my mental illness and disgraced, Tripp's father could not bring himself to return to his wife and young son after the war.

In "some of the best prose this side of Tim O'Brien or Tobias Wolff" (Military History Quarterly), Tripp tells of how he learned, as a platoon leader, to become something of a father to the men in his care, how he came to understand the strange trajectory of his own mentally unbalanced father's life--and how the lessons he learned under fire helped him in the raising of his own sons.

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I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER the evenings at An Loc as very still and beautiful.

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  • Title Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader in Vietnam
  • Author Nathaniel Tripp
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 10th
  • Pages 278
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Steerforth Press, Hanover, NH
  • Publication date April 18, 2006
  • ISBN 9781586421083 / 1586421085
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.04 x 0.62 in (22.86 x 15.34 x 1.57 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Tripp, Nathaniel
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006274513
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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"Father, Soldier, Son will stand as one of the finest soldier memoirs of the Vietnam War . . . If all that has been written about the war in Vietnam, in fiction and nonfiction, has made it a familiar story to some, Tripp overcomes cliché by individualizing every well-known fact." -- The Boston Globe

"Not since Michael Herr’s Dispatches has there been anything quite as vivid, gripping and soul-searing," -- The Washington Post,

"The description of combat in the jungles of Vietnam are authentic and terrifying, as good as any I have read in fact or fiction." -- The Chicago Tribune

A searing memoir  . . . The reader can almost smell the dank Mekong River, the fear, the rotting flesh. Mud, blood and vegetation swirl on the page, and Mr. Tripp pounds home the sights and sounds. -- The New York Times (A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year)

Some of the best prose this side of Tim O'Brien or Tobias Wolff . . . I've rarely seen the isolation and surreal terror of jungle combat better described . . .  Tripp tells the story of his own uncertain relationship with his mentally unbalanced father, and his more successful, and almost paternal, relationship with his platoon in Vietnam. In the end, only the cohesion of that platoon seemed to give sense to his experience." -- Military History Quarterly

About the author

Nathaniel Tripp lives with his wife, the writer Reeve Lindbergh, in Northern Vermont, where he works as a television producer, writer and part-time farmer. He is also the author of Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics, and the Fate of All Humanity.

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