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Great Author Feb 17, 2009
Once I started reading "Hard Way Home" I did not want to stop until the end. Very intriguing with many twist and turns and I kept asking the question "is this fiction or did this really happen?" It has all the qualities of a great book...adventure, excitement, sadness, and joy.
I would definitely recommend this book and look forward to the sequel and hopefully seeing a movie made.
Congrats to the author!!!
Extremely gripping Feb 17, 2009
I just didn't put the book down. Like the other reviewers, I'm still wondering what was real and what was fiction. It all felt so real! It brings up many questions and suggests possible answers. I also really enjoyed the characters of the POWs, true heroes. Also,who wouldn't like it when the individuals, in their search for freedom and happiness, defeat big political interests? One regret however: I wish I had known there was a glossary of military terms at the end of the book!
A very entertaining and suspenseful read. Jan 17, 2009
Hard Way Home is a masterful weaving of fact and fiction from an era and a war that left more questions than answers. One question that persists over 30 years later is what really happened to all the POW and MIA's? This book poses one plausible scenario in a very entertaining and suspenseful read. I could not put it down! I can't wait for the sequel!Hard Way Home
Best of The Year Jun 08, 2008
HARD WAY HOME
The story starts with another day of operations at a remote outpost and a camp in Northern Vietnam in 1969 in the middle of the raging war, where you get an eagle's eye view of the day to day life of the American Army stationed there, and the cultural differences and prejudices that color the times... Combat, death and struggle for survival are the order of the day, and seemingly ordinary events turn to extraordinary acts of treason and lethal deception. You witness the action through the eyes of the author with his photographic memory, of every little detail, color, move, expression.
Fast-forward to the end of the war in 1976, and the official agreements for return of POW-MIA's. The story takes off and soars into breath-stopping heights....The dirty little secrets of the government hypocrisy, the escapes, the return and the disillusionment of the men...
Despite the disclaimer of the author about the fictitiousness of this book, and living in the days of another questionable war where Big Brother has a free hand, you can't help but wonder how much of this Historic Fiction is fiction and how much isn't.
I haven't read a book this good for a long time. I'd place it among the best books of War Fiction I have ever read. Well worth the time, and looking forward to the next work of Dennis W. Clark.
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Hard Way Home May 05, 2008
Hard Way Home is a must read for all of us who lived through the years of the Vietnam War.....A new reminder of just what we left behind and a confirmation that all the Veterans who still display their MIA/POW flag, perhaps know far more than any of us ever dreamed possible. Thought provoking, you bet. It's been a week since I finished the book and I'm still asking myself. . . just how much was fact and how much was fiction?
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