War Year,:

by Joe Haldeman

Book Overview

Describes the experiences of a nineteen-year-old American soldier during his tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030885957
• ISBN13: 9780030885952
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Simple and unpretentious

What I like best about this book is its modesty. It is not showy in any way, just clean and honest. It does not emphasize the horror or the cynicism, as most other Vietnam novels do. The book is more about camaderie, and it retains a little of the idealism that so many people felt at the time. I have read this book four times or so, and I would recommend it as an introductory novel, not only for its quality, but also for its brevity. The author evidently had second thoughts about this novel, since the text of the paperback edition differs from the hardcover. I am not sure how extensive the changes he made were, however the hardcover's ending is upbeat, the softcover's just the opposite.