'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. and a hard rain fell is a gripping and visceral account of one young man's struggle to make sense of his place in a world gone mad. and a hard rain fell back into print in a newly updated edition, with a new introduction by the author and eight pages of never-before-published photographs.įrom the country roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam, and finally to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Now, over 15 years after its initial publication, Sourcebooks is proud to bring. Thus begins John Ketwig's powerful memoir of the Vietnam War. I needed to get Vietnam out into the open, but I couldn't talk about it. I'd never written more than an occasional letter to the editor in my life. It was 1982, fourteen years after I had last set foot in Vietnam, and thirteen years after I returned to The World. Every person who served in Vietnam has their own traumatizing story to tell.

Most importantly, it looks at today’s wars and military adventures and examines lessons that were never learned.I didn't set out to write a book. .and a Hard Rain Fell: A Gis True Story of the War in Vietnam (Pre-Owned Paperback 9781402210358) by John Ketwig About this item Specifications Products. This book is part history, and part analysis of a variety of aspects of that dreadful time. Vietnam Reconsidered: The War, The Times, and Why They Matter. That was a memoir, but I found, after many years of meeting students, veterans, and baby boomers that I needed to say more about the war and modern-day militarism in America. I had never written more than a letter before this, but my story became a book! After 30+ years and 27 printings, …and a hard rain fell: A G.I.’s True Story of the War in Vietnam is still on bookstore shelves. So, I began to type out my story and hand the pages to my wife. Years later, the books I read about those events didn’t begin to describe what I wanted my kids to know about the war. Instead, I was sent to Vietnam and Thailand, where I saw things I had never imagined. John Ketwigs memoir of the war in Vietnam is a visceral account of a young mans odyssey from the roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam. I loved road racing at Watkins Glen, drag racing, and I dreamed of someday visiting exotic California where I would see hot rods and surfers. In 1966 I was a teenager, a fan of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan.

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