Immigrant Soldier: From the Baltics to Vietnam (Hellgate Memories Vietnam)
by Vick Pakis
Category: Biography & Autobiography

From the Bolshevik Revolution to the onslaught of Communism and Nazism in Latvia, Immigrant Soldier reveals the region's heritage and strangulation of rights. Although he was young when his family fled Latvia, Vick Pakis would carry his family's traditions and values to the United States. Immigrant Soldier reveals how this personal history would ultimately influence Pakis' confrontation with Communism as a soldier in the U.S. Army. He served two tours in Vietnam, battling oppression similar to what his family had fled in eastern Europe.