The Nightingale's Song - by Robert Timberg (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of five well-known naval Academy graduates to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. "This is an amazing piece of work that could make you cry over descriptions of bravery so bold and so big that you wonder how our country deserves such men. . . . It is about the soul of a nation".--Mike Barnicle, The Boston Globe Books. photo insert.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well-meaning if ill-starred warriors, Timberg probes the fault line between those who fought the war and those who used money, wit, and connections to avoid battle. A riveting tale that illuminates the flip side of the fabled Vietnam generation -- those who went.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>David Halberstam author of <i>The Best and the Brightest</i> <i>The Nightingale's Song...</i> has an almost hypnotic authority all its own and belongs on the same shelf as those classics of the Vietnam War, Neil Sheehan's <i>A Bright Shining Lie, </i> Philip Caputo's <i>A Rumor of War, </i> and Harold G. Moore and Joseph Galloway's <i>We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.</i><br><br>Mark Shields <i>The Washington Post</i> If you want to read a terrific book about courage and cowardice, honor and betrayal, suffering and death, and the indomitability of the human spirit, get <i>The Nightingale's Song.</i><br><br>Mike Barnicle <i>The Boston Globe</i> This is an amazing piece of work that could make you cry over descriptions of bravery so bold and so big...It is about the soul of a nation...This is a stunning book.<br>
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