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Writers have been writing about war since the siege of Troy, but few, if any, have captured the first-person experience of war as deeply as My Vietnam War. Set in 1967 (the deadliest year of the Vietnam War), this memoir-style novel depicts the psychological journey of a young man whose carefree days of studying philosophy at the university are ended by the draft. The story follows him from his initial rear-echelon assignment in Saigon, where he falls for a mysterious storytelling bar girl, to his eventual posting at an isolated front-line firebase in one of the deepest parts of the Vietnam jungle. While recovering from a leg wound (he is hit by a piece of bone from a fellow soldier who stepped on a booby trap mine), he becomes the assistant medic and sees the horrors of war close up. The experience begins his steady spiral down into PTSD. After he is seriously wounded, he ends up back in Saigon where, after an old friend from Arizona gets him involved in the underground drug trade, the mysterious bar girl may be his only hope for salvation. It is a powerful story, well-written, with vivid detail that you will never forget.

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Writers have been writing about war since the siege of Troy, but few, if any, have captured the first-person experience of war as deeply as My Vietnam War. Set in 1967 (the deadliest year of the Vietnam War), this memoir-style novel depicts the psychological journey of a young man whose carefree days of studying philosophy at the university are ended by the draft.

The story follows him from his initial rear-echelon assignment in Saigon, where he falls for a mysterious storytelling bar girl, to his eventual posting at an isolated front-line firebase in one of the deepest parts of the Vietnam jungle. While recovering from a leg wound (he is hit by a piece of bone from a fellow soldier who stepped on a booby trap mine), he becomes the assistant medic and sees the horrors of war close up.

The experience begins his steady spiral down into PTSD. After he is seriously wounded, he ends up back in Saigon where, after an old friend from Arizona gets him involved in the underground drug trade, the mysterious bar girl may be his only hope for salvation. It is a powerful story, well-written, with vivid detail that you will never forget. We highly recommend it.

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Dr. Murdock is a California State University professor. He is the author of eight novels: The Robots of Cottage H, God's Messenger - God'sVictim, The Pain Artist, A Psalm for Cock Robin, My Vietnam War,Crueltown, The End of the Civil War, and Who Owns Arizona? He is alsothe author of several textbooks including How to Write Fiction: Toolsand Techniques, and a number of history/political books, including FromWashington and Adams to Hillary and Trump: The Stories behind the Storyof Every Presidential Election.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00EI2CKJK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ H.O.T. Press (January 10, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 10, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 329 pages

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robert markee

A very different view

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2013

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I have to say this book is a well-crafted good read but fairly strong stuff and not for the faint of heart.
The author writes in such vivid detail that I had no choice but to be dragged, kicking and screaming at times, into the sordid back streets of Saigon and frightening jungles of an alien combat zone, and could almost see, smell, taste and feel the jarring assault on the senses, as viewed through the eyes of Scotty. If anyone had any enthusiasm for war, the grim realities of this story would quickly put an end to any romantic illusions. The story was compelling in many ways and especially in the telling of the combat patrols into the night jungle which is beyond any imaginable horror, as least to me. Nothing was sugar-coated and I liked that, but there were times I just had to put the book down and return when I was better able to cope. Actually, what I found very interesting was Brent's transformation as a pot entrepreneur and how he managed to work his way through that mysterious system and how it exposed the complicity of the military in the money making scheme. How he got connected to the French was quite astonishing..... and I would have liked to have been taken ever deeper into the intrigue of the french/asian underworld.
All in all, this highly personal account of the war was far different than any I've experienced and should be required reading for all male youth, as well as most politicians

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War is Terrifying!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 22, 2013

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When I was a kid, post-WWII, I was a make believe soldier: brave, heroic, unafraid. The Viet Nam War set me straight. I was unable to serve in the military due to a 4F status. I was in my late teens, still gung-ho about winning this war like America helped in decisively winning both world wars. Then, some friends and acquaintances began coming home, others didn't unless in a body bag. I was persuing a degree from West Virginia University at the time. The awareness that hit me was devastating. War was not a game kids played as make believe soldiers. War was about killing and getting killed or maimed or being lucky enough to survive to go home. But, even for those who survived combat were damaged from what they had witnessed. "My Viet Nam" by Doc Murdock vividly describes the realness of combat like no other I have ever read. I do believe all the politicians in Washington, DC should be required to read this book before being allowed to be sworn into Congress. Maybe, they would have second thoughts before commiting our young men and women of the armed forces into third world combat zones.

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Jeffrey Lawson

This Vietnam novel comes truly alive.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2014

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When I finished this, I felt as if I'd been in that war, had gained a personal, visceral sense of what it was like. I never felt that way, to that extent, about any other war novel.

It could be said that Murdock accomplished that by means of his writer skills, excellent descriptive powers, and psychological insight. No doubt, that's part of it. I believe, it also has to do with the unusual character of Scotty, and how we live in his mind, seeing the world through his eyes and thought. Scotty is not your usual war novel hero. One could argue, he shouldn't even be there. He not only reads philosophy, but is naive, volunteers for duties any other solder would run from. When he's in a safe gig, he isn't happy, but wants to be with the other men facing jungle combat.

It's out of a brew of Scotty's unique personality, life among young girls and drugs at Wong's Bar in Saigon, and that contrasted with the brutal horrors of jungle fighting, that Murdock creates this gripping, insightful, novel.

I did feel I'd lived that war first hand.

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Judy Rosenthal

The reality of the Viet Nam war in surreal detail

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2017

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This is surely the best novel in print about what was happening up close and deadly in Saigon, in the jungle, in the minute-by-minute reality of US servicemen, perhaps even in the throes of their boundless imagination, for the men resembling the main character. He's a kid with no testosterone to spare, all vulnerability and marvelous gullibility. Women and men of all ages will love the guy. Readers will cling to this grim, yet zany, page-turner, often uncomfortably identifying with the protagonist (yes, women too). This novel is as important as it is entertaining and surprisingly educational, for it runs on a compassionate realism in minute detail that somehow honors the victims - on all sides (more than two!) - of that most grotesque war.

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Kristina V Grey

A Must-read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2015

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While reading My Viet Nam War, I entered the mind of Scotty, an introverted and naïve young man who wanted to complete college, but instead, because of low economic circumstances is talked into enlisting into the service by his best friend. He carries a token of his one college class, a philosophy textbook with him, viewing the war and his participation in it through the lens of different philosophical points of view, thereby becoming the observer. This strategy of removing his personal feelings from what is happening around him becomes his primary strategy for coping with the horrors, fears and pains of what he sees, hears and encounters during his service. However, his psychological shield is penetrated when he is physically wounded and no longer able to psychically fend off the abominations of the war.
This book is a must-read!

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A Sham

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2014

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As a person who served in Viet Nam this book is a total fiction. Not only that but there is virulent disrespect for the military and military leaders. It is unbelievable that the main characters could have acted as was portrayed. Its simply a terrible book on a soldiers experience in Viet Nam and it appears to me from the numerous mistakes and misinformation that the author was never there. Pure nonsense!

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Mike

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 19, 2014

A so so book.

I'm not sure this guy every was in the Army ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2014

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I'm not sure this guy every was in the Army much less went to Viet Nam. First no one goes from Basic Training straignht to Viet Nam or any other war zone. Lot of of other pure BS about the book. If I could rate in the minus I would. Do not buy.

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