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Title: One More Mission: Oliver North Returns to Vietnam by Oliver L. North, David Roth ISBN: 0-310-40490-8 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Oliver North Comes to Terms With Vietnam
Comment: This book is one that gives a view into experiences many of us will never face. Oliver North had a short tour in Vietnam but it definitely left him with many long lasting memories.
In this book we read North's personal impressions of what it was like to fight in the Vietnam War and he gives us the reasons why he thinks we failed there.
In 1993 Oliver North decided to go back to the country where he fought and finish his mission. Instead of going in a stance of war he went as an agent of peace to bring support, hope and reconciliation.
Oliver North shares with us his views as a born again Christian. He is driven by the teachings of Jesus Christ who calls us to, "Love our enemies." Oliver North does just that. He is driven to bring help to this hurting nation, shackled by a crumbling system of communism.
Oliver North visited Hospitals and Orphanages both hurting and dilapitated. He helped lead the way in bringing aid to these people. It is nice to see North, a professing Christian taking his life in Christ seriously and really going out and showing love to others.
This book is full of unique observations and inspiring actions. It was an enjoyable and quick read.
Rating: 3
Summary: ONE MORE MISSION: Oliver North Returns to Vietnam
Comment: I agree with all of the other reviews on this page; Oliver North certainly was not in Vietnam very long, but his co-author David Roth certainly represents well the time he did spend as a Marine platoon leader. The accounts are vivid and help to portray Marine combat infantrymen experiences in I-Corps. The book did help me to format my story of flying UH-1D helicopters in the Mekong Delta; I liked the set-up of the chapters and untilized this aspect. I wasn't too interested in the Christianity thing North gets into on his return trip; it certainly is true that this is what has anchored his life--but this is not much of a Vietnam vet story. It still is on my bookshelf, however, for the reasons expressed below by the other reviewers.
Rating: 5
Summary: a book totally worth reading!
Comment: i read this book while doing research on ptsd. as an unrepentent left-wing, hippie, i am quite certain that a lot of people will not read this book because of north's political views. they are making a mistake. this book is very healing. it made me cry several times.
this books takes the reader into the heart of the war in I corps in 1968...it seems a lifetime ago--and yet, for many, it is as real as yesterday. we are, as north points out, a nation in need of healing over the vietnam war. too many people still suffer from ptsd as a consequence of it. they have traumatized their own children.... and society as a whole is poorer for the loss of these individuals.
we owe it to ourselves to understand the war and what happened there--no matter what our own political belief system is. this book goes a long way towards that goal. it also gives practical advice on how we, as decent caring humans, can, without a political agenda, help the people we bombed the s--- out of for 10 years. people who do not, amazingly, hate us for it.
READ IT!!!!
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Title: Under Fire: An American Story by Oliver L. North, William Novak ISBN: 0971700915 Publisher: 21st Century Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Jericho Sanction: A Novel by Oliver North, Joe Musser ISBN: 0805425519 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Mission Compromised: A Novel by Oliver North, Joe Musser ISBN: 0805425500 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North by Ben Bradlee ISBN: 1556110537 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: True Freedom : The Liberating Power of Prayer (LifeChange Books) by Oliver North, Brian Smith ISBN: 1590523636 Publisher: Multnomah Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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