About Face
The Odyssey of an American Warrior
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster · Print & ebook · September 29, 2020
Called “everything a war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this all-time classic of the military memoir genre now includes a new forward from bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink.
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- Who it’s for
- Follow one career across wars and crises, where patriotism meets a searching critique of military leadership.
- Genres
- Vietnam War History, Military Lives, U.S. Military History
- Published
- Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, September 29, 2020
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Called “everything a war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this all-time classic of the military memoir genre now includes a new forward from bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink. Whether he was fifteen years old or forty, David Hackworth devoted his life to the US Army and quickly became a living legend. However, he appeared on TV in 1971 to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam.
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From Korea to Berlin and the Cuban missile crisis to Vietnam, Hackworth’s story is that of an exemplary patriot, played against the backdrop of the changing fortunes of America and the US military. This memoir is the stunning indictment of the Pentagon’s fundamental misunderstanding of the Vietnam conflict and of the bureaucracy of self-interest that fueled the war. With About Face, Hackworth has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation and presents a vivid and powerful portrait of patriotism.
Service Under Strain
Follow one career across wars and crises, where patriotism meets a searching critique of military leadership.
Come here for
- A soldier’s long view of American military life
- A frank critique of the Vietnam War effort
Expect
- A personal account spanning Korea through Vietnam
- A vivid portrait of service, dissent, and institutional failure
Where it sits
| Military Lives | 84% |
|---|---|
| Vietnam War History | 52% |
| U.S. Military History | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in History
- U.S. Military History
- 20th-Century History
- Authors
- Col. David H. Hackworth, Jocko Willink, David H. Hackworth
- Publisher
- Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
- Published
- September 29, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Lives in History