Short description
In this straight-from-the-shoulder account, Robert Mason, veteran of more than 1,000 combat missions, tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam, offering an astounding personal story of men under fire. Photos.
Long description
More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Masonas astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden deathathe extreme emotions of a achickenhawka in constant danger.
Review
[ Chickenhawk ]as vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stun readers. ( Time ) Masonas gripping memoir ... proves again that reality is more interesting, and often more terrifying, than fiction. ( Los Angeles Times ) Very simply the best book so far out of Vietnam. ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch )