Chickenhawk

As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the US Army have him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July 1966, he flew more than 1000 assault missions. In Chickenhawk, Mason gives us a devastating bird's eye-view of that war in all its horror, as he experiences the accelerating terror, the increasingly desperate courage of a man `acting out the role of a hero long after he realises that the conduct of the war is insane.'...

Note: a bit worn and scruffy