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About Face
Colonel David H. Hackworth US Army Ret. (Author), Julie Sherman (Author), John Pruden (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) & 1 more★★★★★
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Customers find this book to be a required reading that keeps their attention throughout its 800+ pages. The book offers valuable leadership lessons from an amazing leader's perspective and is filled with great stories, with one customer noting countless stories of valor and honor. Customers praise its writing quality, with one describing it as a masterpiece of military writing, and appreciate its view of history from an individual's point of view.
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Called "everything a 20th-century war memoir could possibly be" by the New York Times, this national best seller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism.From age 15 to 40, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. With About Face, he has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation. From Korea to Berlin, from the Cuban missile crisis to Vietnam, Hackworth's story is that of an exemplary patriot, played out against the backdrop of the changing fortunes of America and the American military. It is also a stunning indictment of the Pentagon's fundamental misunderstanding of the Vietnam conflict and of the bureaucracy of self-interest that fueled the war.New York Times best seller. A Military Book Club Main Selection. A number-one Amazon.com best seller in Korean War Personal Narratives. Read more