Phantom Leader [Viet Nam War Novel]
by Berent, Mark
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399136037
- ISBN 13
- 9780399136030
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putman's, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality.. A fast-paced novel about the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam through which readers come to see the excitement and cruelty of war.
The novel's real antagonists, indeed, are less the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong armed forces than the ignorant politicians and malevolent activists back in the U.S. Berent's flogging of this familiar theme sacrifices impact for repetition.
But Berent remains without peer in the battle zone, describing the dynamics of an air war waged in a restrictive environment against a determined enemy. And his stomach-turning--and essentially accurate--depictions of the treatment of American pilots in Vietnamese captivity are timely reminders that there is no such thing as a Nintendo war. [PW]
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality.. A fast-paced novel about the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam through which readers come to see the excitement and cruelty of war.
The novel's real antagonists, indeed, are less the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong armed forces than the ignorant politicians and malevolent activists back in the U.S. Berent's flogging of this familiar theme sacrifices impact for repetition.
But Berent remains without peer in the battle zone, describing the dynamics of an air war waged in a restrictive environment against a determined enemy. And his stomach-turning--and essentially accurate--depictions of the treatment of American pilots in Vietnamese captivity are timely reminders that there is no such thing as a Nintendo war. [PW]
Reviews
On Sep 28 2007, Hazelwood_Booksellers said:
Mark Berent, a distinguished flyer in the USAF for more than twenty years, and a veteran of the Vietnam War, author's an explosive novel in, 'Phantom Leader'. He gives us a rich collage of heroes, each embroiled in the seething battle of the Tet Offensive in 1968 Vietnam, a field of honor that Berent himself is all to familiar with in very real terms: Pilot Toby Parker, is making his way through the jungle, only to stumble into the middle of a tank attack at Lang Tri. Major "Flak" Apples, parachutes from his downed fighter jet, right into the waiting arms of the enemy at the "Hanoi Hilton". Special Forces Colonel Wolf Lochert, is set to confront an old advisari he has never been able to beat in combat. General "Whitey" Whisenand, gives his all to cover his troops on the front-lines while fighting two wars --- one in Vietnam and one in Washington, DC. Major Court Bannister, is conflicted with choices that could make him Vietnam's first "air ace", or destroy his career. This is a heart-pounding novel so vivid in detail and riveting in its action adventure that you'll forget it's only fiction.
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- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA] (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17615
- Title
- Phantom Leader [Viet Nam War Novel]
- Author
- Berent, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399136037
- ISBN 13
- 9780399136030
- Publisher
- G. P. Putman's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
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