Stephen Atkins: 2 books
by Stephen Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Pick a profession, and chances are good there are some interesting stories to tell. Imagine what an astronaut has seen, or a first responder faces everyday. I never expected to pilot a helicopter a thousand feet above the Southern California freeways, interview surviving iron workers who built the...
Writing the War
My Ten Months in the Jungles, Streets and Paddies of South Vietnam, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
The author of this Vietnam War memoir was drafted in November 1966 just before completion of his Ph.D. work in French history and entered the army, age 26, in February 1967. He arrived in Vietnam in April 1968. Serving as both pointman and sniper, he experienced six weeks of frontline duty, averaging...