Tag: Vietnam War
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The Volunteer- Not For Glory by Jason Morwick and Robert Nelson is about a young man named Hans Sterling. He was only a child when Germany fell at the end of WWII and his family was killed by fleeing Nazis for celebrating the end prematurely. Almost a decade later he is still haunted by that…
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Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers is a startlingly realistic novel of the Vietnam War. It tells the story of Richie Perry, a young seventeen-year-old from Harlem who is unable to afford college. Thinking he needs to find an alternative he volunteers for the army where is sent to Vietnam. While there he finds himself…