Автор:Susan S.Rosvall Год: 2013 Издание:
Книга по Требованию Страниц: 284 ISBN: 9781457523670 "I never thought that I would read a work of literature on the Vietnam War that I would cherish as much as Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Tobias Wolff's In Pharaoh's Army, and Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country. But in Silence is Broken, I can now add to that aforementioned list of cherished and highly accomplished works." Wayne Thomas, Ph.D. in creative writing at the Open University of Wales "Silence is Broken is a work of historical fiction, a skillfully crafted coming-of-age story. Private Scofield arrives in Vietnam in 1966, naive and filled with boyish patriotism. His is a tale of personal growth cast amidst the realities of war...a story of fiction based on real life and real events. "The shattering realities of war and the desperate will to live under unimaginable conditions-fighting an enemy both known and unknown-creates a powerful story of childlike immaturity giving way to the wisdom and courage of adulthood. But this story is not only Private...