Valley of the Purple Hearts - Destefanis, Rick
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When young Buck Marino first meets Rolley Zwyrkowski, he little realizes how much their next year together in Vietnam will change his life forever. The months following the 1968 Tet Offensive and the battles of the 101st Airborne between Hue and Phu Bai, and westward into the A Shau Valley, provide the backdrop for a story about boys becoming men in a paradoxical war. And when he meets Army nurse Janie Jorgensen, Buck believes he has found true love only to discover that the war has left his heart and soul lost in a futureless void.

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Produktbeschreibung
When young Buck Marino first meets Rolley Zwyrkowski, he little realizes how much their next year together in Vietnam will change his life forever. The months following the 1968 Tet Offensive and the battles of the 101st Airborne between Hue and Phu Bai, and westward into the A Shau Valley, provide the backdrop for a story about boys becoming men in a paradoxical war. And when he meets Army nurse Janie Jorgensen, Buck believes he has found true love only to discover that the war has left his heart and soul lost in a futureless void.
Autorenporträt
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Rick DeStefanis is the author of eleven books. As a military veteran and former paratrooper who served with the 82nd Airborne Division from 1970 to 1972, his experiences predicate the seven-book Vietnam War Series. This collection of stand-alone novels includes three award-winners: The Gomorrah Principle, awarded the 2015 Readers' Favorite Award for military fiction, Valley of the Purple Hearts, awarded the 2017 Best Indie Book Award for literary fiction, and The Birdhouse Man, awarded the 2020 Gold Medal by the Military Writers Society of America. DeStefanis has also published a historical western series The Rawlins Trilogy as well as a southern novel "Tallahatchie."