Land of Childhood's Fears - Faith, Friendship, and The Vietnam War [Paperback]

David Todeschini (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 2005

This long-awaited book - over 7 years in the making - is now available. The author, a soldier in the USAF with a Top Secret / Crypto security clearance in Vietnam, gets involved with the Medical Civic Action Program (MEDCAP) after USAF F-4 fighter planes drop Napalm on a schoolhouse in Cambodia in 1970, burning 40 children alive. The book details many of the war's little-known secrets; CIA drug smuggling, the JFK assassination, Operation Phoenix, Covert Operations, etc. Highly emotional, you will read here what never was revealed about the Vietnam War, and you will be taken to the heights of joy and depths of despair that only war can produce. - 506 pages - 6 x 9 - Foreword by Dr. Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty.

Product Details

• Paperback: 508 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com (April 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1411624521
• ISBN-13: 978-1411624528
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,027,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A most compelling book, February 4, 2006

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AviStrunz "AviStrunz" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Land of Childhood's Fears - Faith, Friendship, and The Vietnam War (Paperback)

This author has a way of grabbing you by all your emotions at once. He starts off with a short autobiography, and how he came to be in Vietnam with a USAF intelligence outfit. He and a buddy are devastated by an errant airstrike inside Cambodia which they provided intelligence for, that ended up burning over 40 schoolchildren alive. He agonizes over this, and gets involved with the MEDCAP program in an effort tomake things right. It is unclear to him, but the fact that they helped civilians didn't sit too well with the enemy, who ended up retaliating against a village by bombing it. His team goes in after the bombing, and he and a buddy rescue a small boy who later dies in the MASH unit.

There is a beautiful chapter of poetry, in which the author tells the story of Vietnam in drastic, compelling verses that just rip your heart out. He has a chapter on Operation Phoenix, which he described in a radio program as "a terrorist organization". There is an entire chapter of veterans reminiscing about the war, and they come up with an entirely new theory on the JFK assassination.

The author sure did his homework - with over 1,000 footnotes and references to cross-check his information. This is by far, the very best book on war I've ever read. The publisher's web site just announced a hardcover version of the book - I bought mine directly from a link on the publisher's site at http://www.LuLu.com/Net4TruthUSA - This book is a MUST READ for anyone who has been in Vietnam, or in any war. The chapter of poetry alone is worth the price of the book. If there was another "star" to add to the ratings, I'd give it SIX stars!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Land of Childhood's Fears - A Fearless Catharsis, July 11, 2005

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yzravio "yzr" (virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Land of Childhood's Fears - Faith, Friendship, and The Vietnam War (Paperback)

I purchased an autographed copy directly from the author, who was working a street vendor stand near 57th Street in NYC. When I went to get on the plane to go home (I live in Virginia), I was so engrossed in it, that I almost missed the gate call for my flight. This guy has a style unlike any I've seen. He breaks down the subject into 19 chapters, and each chapter into smaller sub-subjects. His "Vet's Rap Sessions" alone is worth the price of the book, which is 506 pages - I could NOT put this book down. I fear I may have missed something, so I'm reading it AGAIN. If his other (dozen or so) books on his web site at [...]is anything like this, I'm in trouble.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TOTALLY AWESOME!, February 24, 2007

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Sam Trent "Sam T" (Baghdad Iraq) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Land of Childhood's Fears - Faith, Friendship, and The Vietnam War (Paperback)

I am a US Army infantryman serving my second tour in Iraq. My sister sent me this book, and after I started reading it, I found a lot of similarities between the author's experience in Vietnam and what we are going through here - they had Agent Orange; we have depleted uranium... they had VC that looked like civilians; we have towel-head suicide bombers... they had snakes in the jungle, and we have snakes in Washington, DC. All in all and cover to cover, if you had SIX stars, I'd give it seven. The chapter of poetry is just.... well.... AWESOME