‘Searching for Gurney; by Jack Estes
This is the story of three U.S. Marines and one North Vietnamese soldier whose stories all come colliding together in the end when they all search for Gurney.
The book is built up in a different way than one normally sees. The reader gets parts of the story here and there.
What happens to Gurney is shocking. The book gives one a good look at that war. What happens when you misplace trust and sometimes luck.
Dealing with the Vietnam war this book does a great job but it’s not an easy read.
It’s very eye-opening to see how soldiers deal with coming home if they make it home at all. Trying to survive. Dealing with PTSD, drugs, and alcohol. One or two stores pop more but that ending…
It shows you that no matter if the battle has been won or lost something, is lost in war no matter what. And things will never be the same in the end no matter how hard one tries.
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