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Black Virgin Mountain a return to Vietnam

The author offers a memoir of the Vietnam War and its devastating impact on his family, chronicling a 1992 railway journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, a return to his former station at Cu Chi and its famed tunnels, and a climb up a local sacred mountain.

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  • "In 1966, Larry Heinemann [the author], a working-class twenty-two-year-old from Chicago, was drafted into the Army just as the American military buildup in Vietnam was going into overdrive. He served one year of combat duty with the 25th Infantry Division, from March 1967 to March 1968, most of it in the vicinity of Cu Chi (of the famous tunnels). It was the most horrific and consequential year of his life and served as the raw material for his two subsequent classic war novels, Close Quarters and Paco's Story. The war also devastated his family; both of his brothers served in the military, and one of them killed himself, while the other has been missing for many years. Truly, the Vietnam War altered Heinemann's life utterly and forever. [This book] is structured along a railway journey Larry Heinemann took in 1992 from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City as the guest of the Vietnam Writers' Association, and ends with a crawl through the tunnels of Cu Chi and a climb up a sacred mountain that provides the title's namesake. From there, he can view the entire compass of his combat experience in-country (including the horrific battle in which Oliver Stone also fought and used as the bloody climax of Platoon). Along the way, the author encounters Vietnamese veterans of the war and views sites that trigger powerful memories. This memoir is an unforgettable threnody of mourning and a moving act of reconciliation.-Dust jacket."
  • "The author offers a memoir of the Vietnam War and its devastating impact on his family, chronicling a 1992 railway journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, a return to his former station at Cu Chi and its famed tunnels, and a climb up a local sacred mountain."
  • "The author offers a memoir of the Vietnam War and its devastating impact on his family, chronicling a 1992 railway journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, a return to his former station at Cu Chi and its famed tunnels, and a climb up a local sacred mountain."@en
  • "Presents a haunting memoir of the horrific year Heinemann spent as a combat soldier in Vietnam, and the ghosts he encounters on his return thirty years later."
  • "The powerful war memoir of the celebrated author of the Vietnam novels Close quarters and Paco's story, the latter a National Book Award winner. An intense, harrowing recounting of the brutal tour of duty in Southeast Asia that tragically and irrevocably altered his life and that of his family, and the long journey of mourning that led him, ultimately, to reconciliation."
  • "The powerful war memoir of the celebrated author of the Vietnam novels Close quarters and Paco's story, the latter a National Book Award winner. An intense, harrowing recounting of the brutal tour of duty in Southeast Asia that tragically and irrevocably altered his life and that of his family, and the long journey of mourning that led him, ultimately, to reconciliation."@en
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  • "Black Virgin Mountain [a return to Vietnam]"
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