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Red Flags (2011)

by Juris Jurjevics(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0547564511 (ISBN13: 9780547564517)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: An aging man is approached by the adult daughter of his former colonel in the Vietnam War. She wants to know how he died since she has never really believed the stories she's heard from her mother and others. Erik Rider, the aging man, tells his story about using Montagnards ethnic groups to stop drug running in a Cheo Reo province to fund the North Korean and Viet Cong troops. Montagnards is a general term for several groups of people who are not ethnic Vietnamese and lived in the mountains and hilltops in Vietnam. They have their own languages and cultures and generally wanted to be left alone. While the story could have been interesting and the author clearly knows the history and the groups he writes about, I found his writing clunky and not enga... moreging.
review 2: An absolute must for anyone who has ever had an interest in the backroom, self-serving antics of all constituents of the early days of the Vietnam"conflict". Having served in Vietnam shortly after the time described in the story, I can justify my feelings of betrayal that were instilled about 1/2 way through my tour. I believed in being there for awhile but by the time I came home I remember thinking "what the hell just happened"!! Thanks Mr. Jurjevics for letting me know my post-war inclinations and doubts were justified. less

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