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Product Details

  • Age Range: 12 and up
  • Grade Level: 7 and up
  • Lexile Measure: 740L (What's this?)
  • Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse (January 29, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 141695371X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416953715
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.7 x 7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #614,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsReprinted from the Aug 2006 "The Historical Novels Review"
By Ken Kreckel on August 25, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Rick Ward, a confused boy from Long Beach just out of high school, drifts into the army. He may be running away from an overbearing father, a pointless existence of beach parties, or perhaps he just needs to do something meaningful. In that spirit he goes to Vietnam and volunteers for the Charlie Rangers, an elite group who infiltrate the jungle to beat the enemy at their own game. He wants to be tested, to experience life like his heroes, Ernest Hemingway and Joseph Conrad. Most of all, he longs to be a man.

He discovers that nothing about war is what he or others had thought. He finds himself in a restricted world of just he and his team, trying to survive in a jungle hell, where the highest honor is not fighting for his country, or even just surviving, but helping a buddy to stay alive, to make it back to `the world.'

This is a powerful story about how war profoundly changes a man. The ugliness of war screams off the pages--its horror, hypocrisy, and utter futility. The author does a marvelous job of blending this with the larger realities of the Vietnam era, not shrinking from the controversies but not taking a stand either. The truth is too complex, too overwhelming for any one individual to understand. In the end, it is the individual's humanity that counts.

This skillfully written book is highly recommended for teens and adults.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGritty Message - Worthy Read
By Kindle Customer on July 13, 2008
Format: Mass Market Paperback
One description of war is mostly mundane boredom interrupted by moments of intense action. Dean Hughes' book subscribes to this premise. Rick is a teen, recent high school graduate, who volunteers to fight in the Vietnam War. Expect to read heavy handed dialogue about the struggle to maintain one's humanity while fulfilling one's duty as a soldier to kill. The author may have overdone this message at the expense of developing characters beyond superficial personalities, such as Rick's ex-girlfriend and Ken,his mentor in the bush. Hughes succeeds in showing war as less than romantic, while the common soldier is heroic in fighting for his country and protecting his comrades in the field. Expect graphic death scenes which hammer home Hughes' themes because they are brief moments in the book. This book makes for a great book study conversation. Consider it.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGritty
By Bruce Bothwell on January 11, 2007
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Although the book was presented as a book for adolescents, it was targeted more for early adult. It follows some of the more disturbing parts of the Vietnamese war through the eyes of a late teen who has little clue of what he wants out of life. He learns that war is indeed hell. I would recommend this as reading for any late teen considering joining the military.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSearch and Destroy Review by Arthur Harris
By BookReview on December 23, 2010
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Search and Destroy by Dean Hughes is a fantastic book about the Vietnam War. This book is about a recent high school graduate named Rick Ward. Rick wants to be a writer but never puts forth the effort needed to do this task. Rick is also having problems with his dad. He is afraid if he leaves, his father will start beating his mom. Rick decides that he needs to become a man and that the Army will help him be that. Rick wants to be in the Special Forces. His unit lays out ambushes for the NVA and the Viet Cong to walk into. On Rick's first patrol a man in his unit named Sparks is hit, and Rick begins to regret coming to Vietnam. While in Vietnam, Rick makes a friend when he meets Kent, who the others call Preacher. Kent and Rick talk to each other about why they enlisted in the Army. Throughout this story Rick and Kent fight alongside each other facing many dangers. Overall, I give this book a 9.5 out of 10.
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4.0 out of 5 starsSearch and Destroy
By jim on January 15, 2014
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Respect defined perfectly in this book. Read if only you want to know what a true warrior is like and does and lives.
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