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Army Blue
Army Blue
Author: Lucian K. Truscott
Literature about the Vietnam War generally focuses on the Viet Cong as the enemy, and spares no detail in recounting the harrowing experiences of American soldiers fighting them in the dense jungle. Lieutenant Matthew Blue however, the protagonist in Lucian Truscott's "Army Blue," is fighting a second, different enemy: the U.S. Army itself. Matt...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780446359801
ISBN-10: 0446359807
Publication Date: 10/1990
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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The Army called it desertion. Three generations of soldiers called it a lie. It is 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War, and a young lieutenant facesa a court-martial for desertion in the face of the enemy. He is Matthew Blue IV, a third-generation soldier from an illustrious southern family. His grandfather, a general, fought in World War II; his father earned his stripes in Korea. Now, from the quagmire called Vietnam, the controverisal trial of the last Army Blue is about to explode outward, probing the intense bonds and pressures that unite and divide an extraordianry military family... And American itself.


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