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Title: River of Perfumes
Subtitle: A Novel of Marine Combat Correspondents in Hue City During Vietnam's Tet Offensive
Author: Michael Stokey
Narrator: Al Peterson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-11-16
Publisher: Warriors Publishing Group
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Post-World War II America and teenage boys dreamed of adventure growing up in the 1950s, listened to Elvis Presley and read Jack Kerouac, yet it wasn't cruising Route 66 in a Corvette that united them, but Highway 1, known as the Street Without Joy, on the way to Hue city during the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Civil Rights and the pill, young girls in long boots and short skirts, but not for those in the jungle and rice paddies of Southeast Asia. Full of innocence and dreams, adolescent passion and coming of age horror, River of Perfumes captures the contradictions of the times and what the brutality of war does to young men in battle, and a country that stayed home and abandoned them.
Members Reviews:
So accurate!
Anyone not there during cannot fully understand what these brace Marines went through but can try to understand through this book!
Michael Stokey's River of Perfumes delivers a knockout punch!
Michael Stokey's River of Perfumes is the latest in Vietnam war stories. Unlike many tales recounting the horror of the battle for Hue City,this one takes you right there, endears you to its characters and then chews you up and spits you out at the last paragraph on the last page. If you weren't there at the time, you'll be damn glad! If you were there, you'll know Stokey created a time machine that produces exquisite detail, vivid images and gut wrenching memories. Either way, you won't be able to put it down until shear emotional exhaustion makes your fingers too weak to hold the book.
Five Stars
Love this book! Very authentic down to the last detail! Can't wait for the next installment!
Ernest Hemingway, meet Ernie Pyle
In August 1943, Ernest Hemingway, Ernie Pyle and other well and lesser known war correspondents arrived in Rambouillet, a small town in north central France, to await the allied liberation of Paris. The always flamboyant Hemingway had covered wars before, and he was an expert in tactics, strategy and military history. He spoke the same language as the senior officers, and many of them deeply respected him and often sought his counsel.
Quite the opposite of Hemingway, Ernie Pyle, an Indiana farm boy, was widely known as a self-effacing and selfless man, and instead of contemplating the movements of armies or the affairs of generals, Pyle covered the war from the perspective of the common soldier. In a down home style unique in combat journalism, his articles for Scripps Howard newspapers read more like personal letters to friends than battlefield reports, an approach that won him not only popularity but also the Pulitzer Prize.
Don't you wish you could have been a fly on the wall of the Hotel Du Grand Veneur when the two men first met. What did they talk about? How did they regard one another? Did their profound differences in nature attract or repel? Sadly, we can never know, but in Michael Stokey's new novel, River of Perfumes, we can glimpse what the two might have produced had they collaborated on a work of fiction based on fact.
More than just a chronicle of the U.S.
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Title: River of Perfumes
Subtitle: A Novel of Marine Combat Correspondents in Hue City During Vietnam's Tet Offensive
Author: Michael Stokey
Narrator: Al Peterson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-11-16
Publisher: Warriors Publishing Group
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Post-World War II America and teenage boys dreamed of adventure growing up in the 1950s, listened to Elvis Presley and read Jack Kerouac, yet it wasn't cruising Route 66 in a Corvette that united them, but Highway 1, known as the Street Without Joy, on the way to Hue city during the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Civil Rights and the pill, young girls in long boots and short skirts, but not for those in the jungle and rice paddies of Southeast Asia. Full of innocence and dreams, adolescent passion and coming of age horror, River of Perfumes captures the contradictions of the times and what the brutality of war does to young men in battle, and a country that stayed home and abandoned them.
Members Reviews:
So accurate!
Anyone not there during cannot fully understand what these brace Marines went through but can try to understand through this book!
Michael Stokey's River of Perfumes delivers a knockout punch!
Michael Stokey's River of Perfumes is the latest in Vietnam war stories. Unlike many tales recounting the horror of the battle for Hue City,this one takes you right there, endears you to its characters and then chews you up and spits you out at the last paragraph on the last page. If you weren't there at the time, you'll be damn glad! If you were there, you'll know Stokey created a time machine that produces exquisite detail, vivid images and gut wrenching memories. Either way, you won't be able to put it down until shear emotional exhaustion makes your fingers too weak to hold the book.
Five Stars
Love this book! Very authentic down to the last detail! Can't wait for the next installment!
Ernest Hemingway, meet Ernie Pyle
In August 1943, Ernest Hemingway, Ernie Pyle and other well and lesser known war correspondents arrived in Rambouillet, a small town in north central France, to await the allied liberation of Paris. The always flamboyant Hemingway had covered wars before, and he was an expert in tactics, strategy and military history. He spoke the same language as the senior officers, and many of them deeply respected him and often sought his counsel.
Quite the opposite of Hemingway, Ernie Pyle, an Indiana farm boy, was widely known as a self-effacing and selfless man, and instead of contemplating the movements of armies or the affairs of generals, Pyle covered the war from the perspective of the common soldier. In a down home style unique in combat journalism, his articles for Scripps Howard newspapers read more like personal letters to friends than battlefield reports, an approach that won him not only popularity but also the Pulitzer Prize.
Don't you wish you could have been a fly on the wall of the Hotel Du Grand Veneur when the two men first met. What did they talk about? How did they regard one another? Did their profound differences in nature attract or repel? Sadly, we can never know, but in Michael Stokey's new novel, River of Perfumes, we can glimpse what the two might have produced had they collaborated on a work of fiction based on fact.
More than just a chronicle of the U.S.