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RonnieOatmilk-
Yeah, that was.
I wished he’d talked more about his life after though - but he was pretty clear that the book was therapy for him, rather than a story for others
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I read the Hal Moore/Joe Galloway account of the battle of Ia Drang immediately before reading Chickenhawk. Moore was all "The best of the best of the best"; while Mason was "Two of our pilots never flew a single mission but logged hundreds of combat hours for themselves, while our CO was so dangerously incompetent that at one point he had to hide in his tent while a fellow pilot took potshots at him with a pistol, and I barely remember Ia Drang because I'd been flying 10 or more hours a day for the week leading up to it and most of the way through." Quite the contrast.
cookiemonster
itsbruce
One of the top books that give a real impression of the insanity of war. The Vietnam helicopter pilot one mentioned upthread, and the junior officers reading club are two that sit alongside it