Chickenhawk - Robert Mason
Chickenhawk - Robert Mason 'I read this as a young pilot about to embark on a career flying military helicopters. Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst…
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Chickenhawk - Robert Mason
'I read this as a young pilot about to embark on a career flying military helicopters. Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst the insanity of the Vietnam war. It should have put me off for life.
Army gave him his chance.They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July 1966, he flew more than 1,000 assault missions. The final few pages are the most shocking I have read in any book.' Tim Peake ________A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war.As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating.As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. In Chickenhawk, Robert Mason gives us a devastating bird's eye-view of that war in all its horror.He experiences the accelerating terror, the increasingly desperate courage of a man 'acting out the