Vietnam-Perkasie
A Combat Marine Memoir

W.D. Ehrhart (Author), H.Bruce Franklin (Foreword by)

9780870239571

Paperback / softback, published 9 June 1995

328 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.1 cm, 0.465 kg

brutal, honest, funny and tragic...Ehrhart's sense of timing, his imagery, his poetic sensitivity, and his passion make his book as enjoyable as to read as it is troubling to endure" —Philadelphia Inquirer

"unrelenting, authentic...eloquent" —Samisdat

In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.D. Ehrhart: "As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature." This autobiographical account of the war, the author's first extended prose work, demonstrates Ehrhart's abilities as a writer of prose as well. Vietnam-Perkasie is grim, comical, disturbing, and accurate. The presentation is novelistic—truly, a "page-turner"—but the events are all real, the atmosphere intensely evocative.