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To Be Free!; A Novel

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Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
(Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de America)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [6], 250 pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. From the DJ: Escape From A North Vietnam Prison. Increasingly scarce Vietnam War military/pow fiction. Ramsey, an American soldier in Vietnam, is captured by the enemy, and plans a desperate escape attempt. The author immigrated to the United States from Scotland. He served in the Marine Corps in the Far East. This searing novel was written in reaction to the negative response given to returning Vietnam War veterans by the many people who could not separate out the war from the warriors. Extract from Publishers Weekly: Having narrowly survived the carnage of the Vietnam War, Marine Sgt. Jack Ramsey fashions a desperate purpose: to escape from a North Vietnamese POW camp where he is tortured, worked to the edge of maddening fatigue and constantly brainwashed. Evading his merciless, sadistic guards, he digs out of a bamboo punishment cage and makes his way through the jungle to the sea where he steals a fishing boat from which a U.S. cutter rescues him. Throughout, flashbacks alternate with chilling details of incarceration. This lucidly written book provides the reader with a convincing account of a fighting man's decision to prove himself adequate to his brutal and hopeless circumstances. In an ironic epilogue, Ramsey, who does not consider himself heroic, whose sweetheart has abandoned him, whose psychic wounds are deep, finds grief for his fallen comrades the first step in his attempts to cleanse his soul. Extract from the Library Journal: Ramsey, a Marine prisoner of war in Vietnam, lives only to escape. He endures his daily routine of work and suffering, interspersed with sessions of torture and humiliation and remembering, until the rainy night he finally does break out. After slashing through the jungle he makes it to a river, the sea, and eventually freedom. The final scene finds him in tears before the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington. With staccato sentences and strong detail the author hammers out a classic tale of escape and survival. It should linger long in the memory. The novel's brevity and immediacy almost demand reading at one sitting. Highly recommended for all fiction collections. Robert H. Donahugh, Youngstown & Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio. Nº de ref. del artículo: 84833

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