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My Detachment by Tracy Kidder is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is My Detachment about?

My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself. This extraordinary memoir is destined to become a classic.Kidder was an ROTC intelligence officer, just months out of college and expecting a stateside assignment, when his orders arrived for Vietnam. There, lovesick, anxious, and melancholic, he tried to assume command of his detachment, a ragtag band of eight more-or-less ungovernable men charged with reporting on enemy radio locations.He eventually learned not only to lead them but to laugh and drink with them as they shared the boredom, pointlessness, and fear of war. Together, they sought a ghostly enemy, homing in on radio transmissions and funneling intelligence gathered...Gfog : 9.504206Grade : 4Formats : EPUBWords : 68517Work Area : SlushpileEase : 86.5438610583018grp : 40Pages : 207

Who reads My Detachment?

Author

Tracy Kidder

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2005

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Humanities