Captain Bullen's War: The Vietnam War Diary of Captain John Bullen edited by Paul Ham

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Interior and binding are still very good.

Captain Bullen's War combines the irreverent humour of MASH with the sharp satire of Catch 22 in portraying one man's extraordinary experiences of the war in Vietnam in 1968, the bloodiest year of the conflict.

The difference is that neither Captain John Bullen nor his experiences is fictional. Nor was he a reluctant soldier. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and a career soldier in the Australian Army, Bullen commanded the vital map-producing section of the Australian Task Force at Nui Dat. Alert to the possibility of humour in the bleakest circumstances, he decided to chronicle the events around him. What emerges is one of the darkest and funniest and lacerating accounts of the Vietnam War ever written.

Strewn with wonderful character sketches and hilarious anecdotes, Captain Bullen's War is more than just one man's insightful account of the absurdity of war. He perceives with unsparing clarity the nature and enormity of the conflict around him. A thoughtful, decent man, Bullen's is a voice of sanity in a world gone mad. (back cover)