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Summary: Was the book fact or fiction
Review: As for the persons that gave the book one star I bet they never have been to Vietnam or met Denny in person. I have a autographed copy of Maverick because I use to know Denny as we were in the same area in Vietnam and again met him in 1996 at his work. To think the book is fiction is to not know Denny or much about Vietnam. I have read 99% of the books written about Vietnam and Maverick rates in the top 2% of the books on Vietnam that I have read. If you knew Denny you would know that everything in the book is true as he is not the type person to add fiction just to make a story more interesting. Heck there was no need to add un-truths as there was plenty of truths to fill several books! As the note Denny wrote in my copy of Maverick says... "This book was written so no one would forget"
"You were there no excuses needed"
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Summary: Embellished?
Review: I couldn't finish this book because the overblown jargon turned me off. I notice another reviewer questions whether the author is for real. Refer to Stolen Valor by Burkett for his comments on that question - he says the author served, but the POW story is not true. Makes you wonder how much of the rest is true. Maybe it's better read as a novel?I do recommend Chickenhawk by Mason. It's a fine book about a helicopter pilot's Vietnam experience.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST I'VE READ
Review: I LAUGHED AND CRIED, BUT COULDENT PUT IT DOW
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Summary: One Great story
Review: One of the greatest story's I have read in a long time. I laughed with him, and cried with him. By the end of the book I felt like I knew him personally, and if I saw him on the street I would say "Hi" as if we were old fiends and talk a while. side note: whoever gave the one star rating there... I think you may want to check the black wall for Tyrone Hysey, its there.
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Summary: One Great story
Review: One of the greatest story's I have read in a long time. I laughed with him, and cried with him. By the end of the book I felt like I knew him personally, and if I saw him on the street I would say "Hi" as if we were old fiends and talk a while. side note: whoever gave the one star rating there... I think you may want to check the black wall for Tyrone Hysey, its there.
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Summary: How did this book miss being an all-time best seller?
Review: This book literally changed my life. After reading this book I joined the ROTC program and was later commissioned an Ordnance Officer in the Army. 4 of the most valuable years of my life. I too visited the wall and located Tyrone Hisey's name, and feel an odd sense of reverence when I pass through Mansfield, OH. It would start to sound silly if I wrote much more about the power this book brings with it...but I will recommend another book, also written with professional assistance: "Fly for Your Life" by Robert Stanford Tuck with Larry Forrester. These books are the most powerful I have read on air war, or any other subject for that matter.
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Summary: How did this book miss being an all-time best seller?
Review: This book literally changed my life. After reading this book I joined the ROTC program and was later commissioned an Ordnance Officer in the Army. 4 of the most valuable years of my life. I too visited the wall and located Tyrone Hisey's name, and feel an odd sense of reverence when I pass through Mansfield, OH. It would start to sound silly if I wrote much more about the power this book brings with it...but I will recommend another book, also written with professional assistance: "Fly for Your Life" by Robert Stanford Tuck with Larry Forrester. These books are the most powerful I have read on air war, or any other subject for that matter.
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Summary: A fine example of the genre
Review: This book was recommended to me by a friend who served with Marvicsin. I read every book (fact and fiction) I can get my hands on concerning VietNam. This now rates as the finest I've read so far. The jargon is a reflection of the time, the war and the age of Maverick during his experience. The expressions he uses in a pinch are hilarious. He moves us through his military experience from young and dumb to the jaded thinking many vets developed in a war that nearly destroyed this country and did destroy many a good soldier in its wake. Also read-"We Were Soldiers Once...and Young" "Easy Target" and for novels on the subject, Colonel Leonard Scott wrote some fine ones.
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Summary: MAVERICK: The Personal War of a Vietnam Cobra Pilot
Review: Yes, the book is controversial--but not because there are untruths in it. It is because several truths were combined from several people's real exploits to write this vivid book. Jerold Greenfield's hand is very much evident in constructing this book because many of the helicopter pilots who flew in Vietnam can't adequately express themselves in the print media. (There are few writers from this group.) They do tell war stories very well--and loudly!! Marvicsin obviously got a lot of help from this professional writer in helping to express how the guys felt and talked, and he has taken some heat for this. This style is a difficult thing to accomplish, and is the book's major feat. Another accomplishment is showing the difference many experienced between their two tours; later was almost always bad.
I have written a book myself on the Outlaws, which were the most affectionate aviation group in all of Vietnam, and many remain close to his day. "Once an Outlaw, always an Outlaw--but once a Knight is enough!"
Anyone stationed at Vinh Long remains long in its grip; it was the best year of our lives, no matter when the tour occurred or other aviation experiences later. Now, that is something highly unusual for any Vietnam vet to say!!
Fort Wolters is gone, Vinh Long is gone, and we only have these attempts at recapturing those long ago days in the books we write.
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Summary: MAVERICK: The Personal War of a Vietnam Cobra Pilot
Review: Yes, the book is controversial--but not because there are untruths in it. It is because several truths were combined from several people's real exploits to write this vivid book. Jerold Greenfield's hand is very much evident in constructing this book because many of the helicopter pilots who flew in Vietnam can't adequately express themselves in the print media. (There are few writers from this group.) They do tell war stories very well--and loudly!! Marvicsin obviously got a lot of help from this professional writer in helping to express how the guys felt and talked, and he has taken some heat for this. This style is a difficult thing to accomplish, and is the book's major feat. Another accomplishment is showing the difference many experienced between their two tours; later was almost always bad.
I have written a book myself on the Outlaws, which were the most affectionate aviation group in all of Vietnam, and many remain close to his day. "Once an Outlaw, always an Outlaw--but once a Knight is enough!"
Anyone stationed at Vinh Long remains long in its grip; it was the best year of our lives, no matter when the tour occurred or other aviation experiences later. Now, that is something highly unusual for any Vietnam vet to say!!
Fort Wolters is gone, Vinh Long is gone, and we only have these attempts at recapturing those long ago days in the books we write.
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