'Doc' Buzz Baviello
U.S. Navy Corpsman with Delta 1/5
"These are just some of my favorite books.''
'Five Years To Freedom'.....Nick Rowe...Ballentine Books 1991
Story of Green Beret Lt. Nick Rowe who was captured and held for 5 years in the jungles of South Vietnam as a POW. Really makes you wonder if you would have had the same courage to live. Nick was assassinated outside an Army Base in the Philippines several years ago where he was the instructor in the escape and survival school.
'13th Valley'.....by John DelVecchio...Bantam Books
A Novel that takes you along a patrol with the 101st Airborne in the Au Shau Valley. Tells it like it was.
'Battle For Hue - Tet 1968'.....Keith Phillip Nolan...Presidio Press
Tells the strory of the battle for Hue.
'Phase Line Green'.....Lt. Nicholas Warr
of Charlie Co., 1/5
An outstanding true story of Charlie Marines in Hue City.
'Bonnie Sue: Marine Corps Helicopter Squadron in Vietnam'
.....Marion Sturky...Heritage Press
'Carry Me Home'.....John DelVecchio...Bantam Books
Story of how a group of Vets deal with this country and their own feelings after coming home to Pa.
'Nightingale's Song'....Robert Timberland
Tells the stories of Ollie North, James Webb, John McCain, Robert McFarlane and Admiral Poindexter, from their days at the Acadamy to their time in the Reagan Administration.
'Fortunate Son...Autobiography of Lewis B Puller Jr.'
...Bantam Books.
'Making Of The Corps'.....Thomas Ricks
Marine Corps Boot Camp today.
'Fields Of Fire'....James Webb
of Delta Co., 1/5
This book is the first on my list of great novels about the Vietnam War.
'Pieces Of My Heart'.....Keith Walker
A collection of of interviews with women who served in Vietnam.
'Shrapnel In The Heart'.....Laura Palmer
Collection of letters, essays, journals and stories from friends, wives, girlfriends, children and sons and daughters.
'The Raid'.....Benjamin Schimmer...Avon Press
Tells the story of the planning and execution of the raid into North Vietnam to rescue the POWS.
'Doc' Buzz Baviello
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