num_pages: 512
description: A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger."Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
language: English
title: Chickenhawk
titlecomplete: Chickenhawk
genres: Biography, Memoir, Military Fiction, War, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, Military History, Aviation, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 13953
publisher: Penguin Books