About the book
In September 1966, at the age of twenty-four, Dalton Henson was drafted into the US Army at the height of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam buildup that would increase to five hundred thousand the number of US military personnel in the country. Henson, who had held a draft-exempt status up until then—having been a college student and then a schoolteacher (athletic coach for one year)—took basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, then was stationed at a military reservation in California for nine months and then volunteered to be sent to Vietnam. Being much under the influence of Ernest Hemingway’s fiction, he was certain that experiencing combat would be the ultimate adventure, and he continued volunteering to try to place himself in combat situations. This fact-based novel recounts his experiences as he travels around the combat-torn nation at the height of the Tet Offensive.
Editions of A Would-Be Adventurist’s Quest for Combat
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781503519862
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781503519879
- EBook
- ISBN 9781503519886
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In September 1966, at the age of twenty-four, Dalton Henson was drafted into the US Army at the height of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam buildup that would increase to five hundred thousand the number of US military personnel in the country. Henson, who had held a draft-exempt status up until then—having been a college student and then a schoolteacher (athletic coach for one year)—took basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, then was stationed at a military reservation in California for nine months and then volunteered to be sent to Vietnam. Being much under the influence of Ernest Hemingway’s fiction, he was certain that experiencing combat would be the ultimate adventure, and he continued volunteering to try to place himself in combat situations. This fact-based novel recounts his experiences as he travels around the combat-torn nation at the height of the Tet Offensive.
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What is A Would-Be Adventurist’s Quest for Combat about?
In September 1966, at the age of twenty-four, Dalton Henson was drafted into the US Army at the height of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam buildup that would increase to five hundred thousand the number of US military personnel in the country. Henson, who had held a draft-exempt status up until then—having been a college student and then a schoolteacher (athletic coach for one year)—took basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, then was stationed at a military reservation in California for nine months and then volunteered to be sent to Vietnam. Being much under the influence of Ernest Hemingway’s fiction, he was certain that experiencing combat would be the ultimate adventure, and he continued volunteering to try to place himself in combat situations. This fact-based novel recounts his experiences as he travels around the combat-torn nation at the height of the Tet Offensive.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in A Would-Be Adventurist’s Quest for Combat?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Biography and non-fiction prose > Biography: general
Where can I read a sample of A Would-Be Adventurist’s Quest for Combat?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781503519862
Who is/are the Author/s of the book A Would-Be Adventurist’s Quest for Combat?
John Veteran
Who is the Publisher of the book A Would-Be Adventurist’s Quest for Combat?
Xlibris
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
A Would-Be Adventurist’s Quest for Combat is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781503519862) and paperback(ISBN 9781503519879) and ebook(ISBN 9781503519886)