Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir

by W.D. Ehrhart

Overview

In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.D. Ehrhart: "As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature." This autobiographical account of the war, the author's first extended prose work, demonstrates Ehrhart's abilities as a writer of prose as well. Vietnam-Perkasie is grim, comical, disturbing, and accurate. The presentation is novelistic--truly, a "page-turner"--but the events are all real, the atmosphere intensely evocative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786487578
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	01/20/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
Sales rank:	533,877
File size:	596 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Memoirist, poet, editor, and Marine veteran, W.D. Ehrhart taught English and history at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania. The author of twenty books, his prose and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Utne Reader, Reader’s Digest, American Poetry Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He was a major presence in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War.
Memoirist, poet, editor, and Marine veteran W.D. Ehrhart taught English and history at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania. The author of twenty books, his prose and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Utne Reader, Reader's Digest, American Poetry Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He was a major presence in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword (John Clark Pratt)     
Prologue     
The Memoir     
Military History of W.D. Ehrhart     
About the Author     

Editorial Reviews

As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature”—John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University; “one of the great poets and writers of nonfiction produced by the Vietnam War”—The Nation; “thoughtful and probing...a must”—Choice; “brutal, honest, funny and tragic”—Philadelphia Inquirer; “unrelenting, authentic...the most vivid exploration of a soldier’s conscience we’ve ever read...eloquent”—Samisdat; “a graphic portrait...gripping prose”—DAV Magazine; “I don’t think I’ve read another Vietnam narrative that presents a better picture of the participants, both Vietnamese and American, and their shared frustration as the war progressed”—John Clark Pratt, Lt. Col. USAF (ret.), author of The Laotian Fragments; “[Ehrhart] combines compassion, wit, and a poet’s eye for detail with the confessional charm of a bildungsroman: a profoundly moving, authentic work”—Natalie L.M. Petesch, author of Duncan’s Colony.

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