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Can't recall who recommended it on here, but read it over Xmas hols - excellent book and really shocked by the last chapter!
Anyway, top STW recommendation.
Anyone read his follow up, Back in the World?
Yeah! Great book (Chickenhawk that is - got it on a 99p Kindle offer).
Wasn't what I expected - very different from most of the Vietnam things I've read, lots of amazing detail about helicopter flying.
Haven't read the follow up.
I believe it was a Harry the Spider recommendation. That’s who recommend it to me when I was after some reading material and it didn’t disappoint. A fantastic book!
If you fancy something equally bonkers with the same level of detail, give this one a go. He’s as mad as a box of frogs, but what a story! You have to a special kind of mental to be a test pilot, especially a naval one
Just finished The Hard Way by Mark Billingham. This one sounds a good follow up on a theme.
It's one of the better books about flying in Vietnam. The follow-up is equally interesting but goes in a completely different direction. I've read his novel "Solo" also which is a bit derivative Michael Crichton tech thriller but still OK holiday reading.
If you fancy something equally bonkers with the same level of detail, give this one a go.
Read that and First Light, the other classic everyone recommends...
Read it years ago, amazing how many battles you recognise from the various films that have come out over the years.
Still a favourite but never read the follow up, as said its a completely different direction altogether.
first read it 20+ years ago and have re-read it multiple times since.
yup the last chapter really surprises you.
Chicken hawk is a great book, the last lines are so poignant
Ta for the recommendation, ordered.
Similarly read it following the recommendation on here - truly excellent and triggered an onslaught of Vietnam related literature for me!
Have a go at ‘The Things They Carried’. Reminded me of ChickenHawk and another great book.
This is another 'Nam favourite of mine. Musta read it 20 times. It's a novel but based on the author's personal experiences.
Also another great sweeping novel of 1950 to 1976 US history by the same author
and another one on the US naval training academy. really enjoyed this one as one of my cousins attended this academy before serving 20 years in the USN
A Sense of Honor
Another great book about the Vietnam war is Nam by Mark Baker.
Low Level Hell is also a good read. It's about the Aeroscout pilots working alongside the Cobras, these guys get through some helicopters!
The Mark Baker book is great! I bought Vietnam Inc off the back of reading these. It’s an amazing book, although you do get the sense that it was more than a bit economical with the truth in some of the captions
Chickenhawk is a brilliant read.
If you enjoyed it you might like 'Matterhorn' by Karl Marlantes (Vietnam Vet)
'Vietnam' by Max Hastings or 'We Were Soldiers Once And Young' by Joseph L. Galloway if you have a bit more time on your hands.
The Big Show by Pierre Closterman is an excellent account of WWII air combat.
Despatches by Michael Herr. Amazing book written about the journalists and photographers in Vietnam.
If you liked Chickenhawk maybe follow up with one of the book recommendation within that book, Street Without Joy?
Just finished 'First they killed my father', a book that both depressed but also gave me a little understanding of the related war in Cambodia.
Loved Chickenhawk and Dispatches; unfortunately 'Back in the World' is out of print and seems to be going for quite a lot on Ebay. Have not read Hasting's book on Vietnam as yet.
I recommend Dear Mom: A Sniper's Vietnam by Joseph T Ward.
Can get back on the world via Amazon sellers for around 16, used but also as Kindle book for not much
Cheers Mikkel. Now ordered paperback version.
Robert Mason (Chickenhawk author) is presently being interviewed of Five Live
It’s with droning, unlistenable dimwit Adrian Chiles, but try and get past that bit
Can thoroughly recommend fate is the hunter By Ernest K Gann.
Inter-war airline pilot and his stories are amazing. Should be a must read for anyone aspiring to be a pilot.
Robert Mason (Chickenhawk author) is presently being interviewed of Five Live
It’s with droning, unlistenable dimwit Adrian Chiles, but try and get past that bit
He is fascinating, Chiles is bloody awful though.
Can thoroughly recommend fate is the hunter By Ernest K Gann.
Inter-war airline pilot and his stories are amazing. Should be a must read for anyone aspiring to be a pilot.
Yep, read that, great book.
Watch Ken Burns "The Vietnam war" series!
Also
"19 minutes to live" by Lew Jennings
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"Black Cat 2-1" by Bob Fori
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Just marking this thread, don't mind me.
arrived today from the US, ex High school library copy....
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