Valley of Tears [Paperback]

Don Bendell (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Dell (1993)
• ASIN: B000K9UWG8
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Don Bendell is an author of 26 novels and books with over 2,500,000 copies of his books in print worldwide and a successful motion picture. He is a former US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) captain and decorated and disabled Vietnam veteran and the father of two Special Forces NCOs who are Iraq/Afghan War vets and still serving our nation. He also owns and is Grandmaster of Bendell Karate in Pueblo West and Canon City, and in 1995 was inducted into the International Karate Hall of Fame. His master instructor wife Shirley is also a 2009 inductee, making them the first and only couple in history to both be in the Hall of Fame. Don has a Master of Science degree in Leadership from the Ken Blanchard College Business at Grand Canyon University and a BS in Business from Colorado Christian University. Don has 6 grown children and 9 grandchildren and describes himself simply as "a real cowboy with a real ranch, a real horse, and real cows." He and his wife own the beautiful 200 acre Strongheart Ranch south of Florence, Colorado.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Jumps around a lot, June 7, 2007

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Mai Linh Nguyen (The Diaspora) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Valley of Tears (The Dell War Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

Like most of the Special Forces memoirs of the Vietnam experience, this one also has an often interesting, fun, and exciting story to tell. I did enjoy this book. However, my disappointment with this book stems from the writing style. I would compare the flow of this book to a music video. The author jumps around a lot while telling his stories. He mixes fragments of scenes and stories together concurrently, introducing something, but then moving on to something else only to return later. At times the reading is very disjointed, therefore, hard to follow. It is a good book that could have flowed better.