num_pages: 400
description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Lewis B. Puller, Jr.'s memoir is a moving story of a man born into a proud military legacy who struggles to rebuild his world after the Vietnam War has shattered his body and his ideals. Raised in the shadow of his father, Marine General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, a hero of five wars, young Lewis went to Southeast Asia at the height of the Vietnam War and served with distinction as an officer in his father's beloved Corps. But when he tripped a booby-trapped howitzer round, triggering an explosion that would cost him his legs, his career as a soldier ended, and the battle to reclaim his life began.
language: English
title: Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
titlecomplete: Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
genres: Autobiography, History, American History, Biography Memoir, War, Biography, Military History, Nonfiction, Memoir, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 804
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography
publisher: Grove Press